The Pittsburg Enterprise (Pittsburg, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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THE PITTSBURG ENTERPRISE
VOL VI.
1MTTSIU l{(i, OK LA.. THl'KSPA V, SKOTKMBKIJ «. 101 o
NO. :H;
LARGE CROWDS
GREET SHERMAN
VICE PRESIDENT GIVEN HEARTY
WELCOME AT OKLAHOMA CITY
HE ARRIVES MINUS VOICE
When Asked About the New York Con-
troversy He Said “Great Town"—
Speaks at Auditorium in
the Evening
Oklahoma City, Okla.—Vice Presi-
dent Jas. S. Sherman, who arrived in
Oklahoma City Saturday morning on
schedule time, might easily have
changed his name from "Sunny Jim,"
to “Whispering Jim." The vice presi-
dent. was so hoarse he could not speak
above a whisper when he arrived here.
The vine president was greeted hear-
tily by the Oklahoma City crowd that
met him at the Rock Island depot. It
was probably the largest crowd that 1
LABOR DAY
lAH CUT *H> i.OOK-
I fine DAnny in
I COUNTY SEAT IS
MOVED IN NICHE
TEMPORARY QUARTERS SAID TO
DE UNSUITABLE
I OKLAHOMA NEWS *
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i Interesting Items of the New State Told
J In Few Words For Our Busy Readers 4. \
NIGHT WATCH OEF DUTY TRAVELER averts disaster INDIAN land sales in OCTOBER
ONE KILLED IN TRAIN HOLD UP
CASE GOES TO SUPREME COURT
AFTER ENCINEER IS INJURED HE
SHOOTS ONE BANDIT
Briefs Fiicd in the Capital Removal
Controversy
Guthrie, Okla.—The vital question
__ tin the long standing capital struggle,
Engineer and Hobo Are Wouried In | w|,irh boen the issue of the day
in Oklahoma for mouths, has been
submitted to the state supreme court
in the form of briefs. Hied by uttor*
Attempt of Three Men to Rob
Express on the Colorado Mid-
land Railway
Leadville, Colo. -Through the hero
ism of a wounded engineer and a
nova representing the governor and
j >h* state.
The possibility of a decision allow-
ing (Juthrie to keep the eapitul until
nervy train crew, the hold-up of train i913 und ,,ien turnlng u over to Ok-
No. J, westbound, on the Colorado j lahoma c|iy ip ghowu l0 exibt ia
Midland, between Divide und Florist-1 'or|pfH_ 1)u| gucU lulillg tl!e
sant Friday, was prevented. One rob-. ,(1VP1,1()I,S att s attack 8tr0„8.
ber is dead, Engineer Stewart is seri-
ouely wounded, and a hobo, unidentl-1 >'• <»»tendlng, in brief that
Ued may not live. I11'0 lnstun‘ that the capital ro-
Two othe. robbers who eseaped are moval bill carried, June 11, Oklalio-
being pursued by a posse.
ma City became the capital of Okla-
When the train in charge if Con-: horn a temporary, permanent and oth-
JAMES S. SHERMAN
Vice President of the United States.
greeted the vice president on his pres-
ent trip. Oklahoma City enthusiasm
was shown In the cheer with which
the vice president was welcomed.
"How about the New York contro-
versy?” he was asked.
"Great town this?" whispered the
vice president as he waved his hand
toward the sky line—
“Great town, great people, great
state."
"Honk! honk! chug! chu**!" said
the Sherman autpBKm,ye a8 7t r?n«d
away.
Tlie automobile was driver -° n Jor‘
‘ ./f's office whgre the v<— president's
throat was trep*'-a. Even after the
treatment he was unable to speak
above a n-nlsper without considerable
olTort.
. hose who saw Vice President Sher-
( 1 man smile, say he deserves the name
V>f “Sunny Jim," which he lias borne
for many years. He has a smile that
is sunshiny and happy.
Perhaps the part of the day’B enter-
tainment which pleased tho vice prosi-
lt in most w as tlie recciption which was
accorded him in the assembly room
of the chamber of commerce. He lik-
ed the manner in which the people of
Oklahoma City looked him squarely In
the eye and the Arm, cordial grip of
their handshake.
In spite of the intense heat Satur-
day night over four thousand crowd-
ed into the .Auditorium to hear the
doctrines and the "gospel of Republi-
canism” as they were to bo told by
tho vice president of the nation.
ductor Wesley Steele, reached Divide,
one of the robb limbed on the ten-
der and worn the train readied »'Jl»
Post 32. n short distance beyond, cov-
ered Engineer Stewart with a revol-
ver.
The train had stopped at this poiut
to meet train No. 4, easlhound.
Stewart, ignoring the call to hold
up his hands, drew his revolver. The
robber opened lire, the bullet striking
Stewart in the leg. Stewart promptly
returned the tire, killing the robber.
At this moment the other bandits
Eent a fusillade of bullets into the
door of the express car but the .*x-
pi's messsenger refused to open the
door.
tiy this time the train crew opened
| lire on the robbers and they Imme-
diately fled in the darkness.
A11 unknown tramp, who was steal-
| Ing a ride on No. 3, was accidentally
shot by the train porter and seriously
injured. Engineer Stewart and the
injured tramp were both taken to
Colorado Springs.
No. 3 carries the YVells-Fargo ex-
press but the robbers obtained noth-
ing.
Santa Fe Stops During Funeral
Topeka, Kan.—For five minutes Sat-
urday no,‘ a wheel turned on the en-! he no question of good faith when the
erwise and that Guthrie was left noth-
ing.
The Oklahoma City briefs, which
cover ail tho questions raised In the
fight between the two cities, concern
themselves chiefly with attacking the
binding force of the enabling act and
the right of congress to impose such
a condition as that the capital shall
be kept at Guthrie until 1913.
It also is contended that the capi-
tal litigation is carried on solely for
the benefit of tho property owners
of Guthrie, which Is alleged to he
wrong; and it is further contended
that a third party cannot interfere to
object to the severance of the terms
of a contract between Oklahoma and
the United States, if there is such, if
the United States herself does not ob-
ject.
“The state cannot contract away
her rights to keep her state capital
where she wills,” says the brief. "The
federal government nad no right to
demand such a compact, and the state
of Oklahoma had no right to make it.
Hut It is said that the people of Okla-
homa accepted this condition of the
enabling act by solemn proceedings
and that good faith required that the
compact be left undisturbed and in full
operation. We deny this. There cun
tire Santa Fe system, a silent tribute
to the memory of tho late J. E. Hurley,
general manager, who died at Karls-
bad, Austria, August 16 and whose fu-
neral was held here Saturday after-
! noon. Five thousand mourners
| marched from the First Baptist church
j to the cemetery, the greater funeral
cortege ever seen in Topeka.
Thirty Hurt in Collision
Rt. Bonis, Mo.—While a heavy rain
storm obscured warning lights two
street cars crashed together hero und
30 men, women and children were in-
jured. Several were so seriously In-
jured that they are expected to die.
The women and children were pinned
Into their seats as the car collapsed
from the force of the crash and their
flesh was torn by the jagged boards
that held them in. Several ambu-
lances were rushed to the scene and
the most seriously hurt were taken to
the hospitals. Several had to be cut
from the debris.
Coal Famine Inevitable
Kansas City, Mo.—There is a coal
famine in southeastern Kansas and
southwestern Missouri. Never before
has the local situation here appeared
so serious and promised such real dis-
tress in the near future as It does now.
Several of the largest operators in the
southwest frankly admit this and say
that if the strike, which has been in
progress since April 1, should be set-
thd at once and work resumed relief
could scarcely come witbjn the next
«L> y days.
Spikes Removed From Rails
Enid, Okla.—Ralph Garrison was ar-
rested by Special Agent Fossett of
the Rock Island hero on the charge of
removing spikes and fish plates from
the rails of a Hock Island bridge over
Deer Creek.
Two Horsemen Shot in Fight
Tulsa, Okla.—In a terrific battle
with knives and gun in the "Oil Ex-
change,” a resort in the heart of the
business district here, “Tex” Hrosha
was fatally stabbed in the abdomen
and shot through the hand, and a race
horse trainer called "Curley” was shot
through the shoulder und received
other injuries that may result fatally.
George Wyatt, charged with having
done the shooting, is under arrest. All
parties are followers of horse races.
Falls on Knife and Dies
Durant, Okla.—While mounting a
wagon here, W. G. I’arsons, a butcher,
foil to the ground and a knife he was
carrying pierced his heart. He died In
a few minutes. Parsons was a prom-
inent cattleman. He leaves a wife
and five children.
Much Damage by Storm
Hugo, Okla.—A severe wind and
rain storm here Friday did several
hundred dollars damage to property.
A number of buildings were unroofed,
and much damage waa done to mer-
chandise by water.
congress of the United Slates, acting
outside its sphere, and without author-
ity, demands of a people that they
surrender their rights of sovereignty
before they shall be admitted its a
state. Congress, by imposing this
condition upon its people, acted with-
out any constitutional warrant or au-
thority. It coerced the people into
the granting away of one of the most
valuable of their reserved rights.
“We hold, therefore, that there is
neither legal nor moral obligations
reflecting upon the people of the state
of Oklahoma to continue In force a
compact which Is unjust, unlawful
and which was exacted by force.”
Suit to Prevent "Closed Shop”
St. Bouls. Mo.—C. W. Post, or Hattie
Creek. Mich., has filed suit In the
United States court for the eastern
district of Missouri against tho Feder-
ation of laibor and the Buck Stove
and Range company of St. Louis to re-
strain the officers of the latter from
carrying out its alleged tentative
agreement with the officers of the Fed-
eration to make the St. Louis institu-
tion a “closed shop.”
Gaynor Leaves Hospital
New Y'ork, N. Y.—Mayor Gaynor
was able to leave St. Mary s hospital
in Hoboken Sunday, going to his coun-
try place, "Deep Wells," at St. James,
L. I. lie stood the trip well, but
showed fatigue, once when entering an
auto, and at tho entrance to his home,
where he fell onto his knees.
Officials Move County Records From
Mountain Park to Snyder—
Two Towns Rivals for
Permanent Seat
Snyder, Okla. Declaring that the
temporary quarters provided for them
were insufficient and unsultatile, at
Mountain Park, the temporary county
seat of Swanson county, the newly
elected county officials, with the as-
sistance of citizens, gathered up all
the county property, loaded it Into
drays and hacks amt moved It Mon-
day night to Snyder.
Mountain Park won the temporary
county scat by lottery, so designated
by Governor Haskell about three
weeks ago. The citizens of Snyder
wanted the county seat, and an elec-
tion is soon to be held deciding where
the permanent county seat shall be
located.
Citizens of Snyder claim that be-
cause Mountain Park has no water
works system or fire protection and
provided no residences for the county
officials, that under the law and ac-
cording to Governor Haskell's procla-
mation, which provided that suitable
quarters should he provided for the
officials, that they had a right to move
the county seat from Mountain Park
to Snyder.
Also that tho constitution provided 1
that the legislature should enact suit-
ablo laws prescribing the condition I
j lor locating the temporary county i
scats, and that the legislature fulled
: to do same, and for that reason Moult- j
j tain Park is not entitled to the tem- j
j porary county seat. The following j
officers moved to Snyder Monday 1
| night: Judge of county court, county 1
j clerk, treasurer, clerk of district court,
1 and tile sheriff has been invited to j
move ills office.
Mountain Park is a small place and
the night watch being detained on
other business the citizens were not
aware that they were losing the coun-
ty scat while they slept. Very few
Snyder citizens knew that the change
was to he made.
When Swanson county was created
about three weeks ago, Snyder and
Mountain Park were both candidates
for the county seat. The only way
the matter could be settled was by
lottery, so Governor Haskell placed
some numbers in a hat and had rep-
resentatives from each of the towns
draw, and Mountain Park succeeded
in landing the temporary county seat.
The two towns are about four miles
apart and Snyder is considerably the
larger.
Women Charged With Murder
Idabel, Okla.—Myrtle Fitzpatrick
and Lonnie Chadwick, two young
| women are in jail here charged with
the mtl.der of James Beatty, a tie-
; maker at Garvin, by hanging him to
1 n tree. Beatty’s body was found with
a piece of wire wound around the
throat. The circumstances al first in-
dicated suicide, but neighbors said
they had seen the two women with
Beatty just before he was found dead.
They refuse to make any statement.
No motive for the murder is known,
ns Beatty had no money.
Aviator Challenges Naval Men
Boston, Mass.—Following Admiral
Bowles' statement that an aeroplane
attack upon battleships would not 1
amount to much, Aviator White has
challenged tho nrvel men. White of-
fers to allow the battleships to shoot |
at him provided lie will be allowed
to carry dynamite bombs.
Record Fall Kills Man
New York, N. Y.—Death by the long- ,
eat fall recorded in the city, with one J
exception, came Monday to E. H. Hoi- ;
brook, an insurance solicitor, when \
he plunged from the twenty-fourth
story of the Park Row building and
landed 300 feet below.
Many Hurt in Collision
Sandusky, Ohio.—The trains c.i the
Lake Shore electric collided two miles
east of Norwalk Sunday and 26 per- !
sons were injured, nine of them serl-
busly.
Jumps rive Stories to Death
New Y'ork, N. Y'.—Pursued by his
two siste-s, with whom he had quar- !
reled, (Varies Young, a silversmith, \
raced to the roof of a five-story ten-
ement here and jumped to the street
in sight of 500 persons. He was In- j
stantly killed.
Wreck la Prevented by Former Rail-
road Brakeinan
Muskogee, Okla. Several people in
Oklahoma owe their lives to the fact
that George Gwlnn, traveling salts
man for n Kansas City drug company,
is tin ex-brnkemun, and a Mg train
wreck was avert' d thereby. Gwlnn
was coming into Muskogee on the
katy from Coweta recently in the ca-
boose of a local freight. As the train
was pulling up a stiff grade, the eu
boose with eight cars broke loose and
commenced running down the hill with
increasing speed. Gwlnn sturted to
jump, and then remembered u passen-
ger train was following. He grabbed
the handbrake on the first ear and set
it. then worked his way over the tops
of oilier cars, selling brakes with a
Agent Announces That 40,000 Acres
Will be Placed on Market
Muskogee, Okla.—The Indian agent
has announced that during the week
beginning October 10, there will be
40,000 acres of Indian land placed ou
the market This is the same week
that the Muskogee state fair and the
International Congress of Indians will
be held, und it is pxperted that hun-
dreds of outside buyers will be here to
grab a farm. Indian land has a pecu-
liar lure for the average farmer from
the east and north. The words to
them seem to have a golden sound.
And there are 140 tracts of land adver-
in some of these sales. In the sule
for October, the agent pointed out,
there Is one tract of land of 320 acres
in tho Choctaw nation which Is ap-
praised at only 1750. There are 140
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Infill t ill !'M| w
Osage City’s New 12-Room School House to Cost $17,000
nimbleness acquired while braking
years ago, and almost forgotten. Ab
tlie grinding brakes commenced to
slow down the flying runaway section
Gwlnn ran back to the top of the ca-
boose to signal the engineer of the
passenger train already in sight. He
gave the correct danger signal and the
emergency brakes stopped the two
trains within a fo>t of eaclt other.
Gwinn's feat is the talk ot the local
railroad circles here.
Ship Whiskey in Coffins
Tulsa, Okla.—Since tne state and
county officers inaugurated the move-
ment to crush the illicit liquor traffic
in this city, bootleggers have been
forced to use Ingenious schemes to get
consignments of liquor shipped here
without being intercepted. One shrewd
bootlegger is said to he receiving li-
quor in coffins, and that scarcely a day
passes tlmt he receives a supposed
"corpse" but which In reality is a ship-
ment of whiskey or beer.
Lives a Month With Broken Neck
Tulsa, Ok.—Haul Wilson, of Haskell,
Okla., died UtiB week In a hospital
here of a broken neck. Wilson’s neck
was broken a month ago. He was
swimming with others in the Arkansas
river and struck his head against a
large rock while make a dive.
acres of this fine bottom land, but it
is covered with great oak and hickory
trees. A small part of It Is In cultiva-
tion. A shrewd, energetic farmer
could, in a few years, turn that into
one of the finest farms in the state.
And there are 140 tracts of land aderv-
tlsed at this sule. Of course, some of
them are worthless, some very fine
and some only passably good. But any
prospective purchaser can see the
land and get the appraised price set by
the government in advance of his bid.
It is noticeable that the sales each
month are getting better and the de-
mand for land greater. The old fear
that the titles are bud is disappearing.
Oi! Men Want Better Rates
Oklahoma City, Okla.—On Septem-
ber 15 representatives of all the oil
and oil product companies of Okla-
j homa will appear before tho corpora-
1 tion commission and argue for a gen-
| ernl reduction of freight rates on their
! products in Oklahoma. Rates as fixed
by the commission originally, were en-
joined by the Hook decision and the
railroads substituted a schedule of
j rates that tho oil men and the Okia-
j homa Traffic Association declare to
he entirely too high. They ask that
j the commission formulate a new scale
and order the roads to observe it. The
| hearing will probably be held in Guth-
rie.
Youth is Fatally Injured j Governor to Appoint Davis
Tulsa, Okla.—W.illlam. Chadwell, 14, Guthrie, Okla.—It is reported here
was fatally hurt here in a peculiar at j that Governor Haskell will apolnt Dr.
cident. The barrier which released 1 Frank P. Davis, of Enid, secretary of
tlie horses In a running race at the j the slate hoard of medical examiners,
county fair struck the youth on the j as superintendent of the state home
head, cutting through the skull. for the feeble minded at Enid.
Better Seed Wheat for Farmer
The "Better Wheat Train" which i3
to be sent out by the State Board of
Agriculture, the Oklahoma Agricul-
tural College and the Rock Island rail-
road, Is attracting state w ide attention.
The train Is designed to create an In-
terest in a better grade of seed wheat,
as tho farmers of Oklahoma lost mil-
lions of dollars this year through rais-
ing a mixed quality of wheat. The
train, carrying exhibits, lecturers, etc.,
will leave Guthrie on September 5,
and will stop at all important points
on the Rock Island road. All classes
cf citizens, even to the children, are
expected to visit the train, see the ex-
hibits, hear the talks and profit there-
by. A complete schedule of the stops
can he had by addressing the State
Board of Agriculture, Guthrie. Okla.
Cyclone Wrecks Town
Jamestown, N. D.—Three were kill-
ed and a score injured, four seriously,
when a cyclone demolished Heaton, n!
D„ Tuesday. A freight train was blown
from the track. Not a building in the
town escaped damage.
Drowns in Bucket of Water
Sapulpa, Okla.—Mrs. T. B. Scohye
awoke Sunday and found that her
baby, a year old, had fallen head first
into a bucket of water placed ut the
bedside for drinking during the night.
Tho child was drowned.
Date Set for Frisco Hearing
Enid, Okla.—The corporation com-
mission has set September 7 as the
cate for hearing of the Frisco rail-
road's plea to be allowed to change
I 5 schedule between Enid, Clinton
i.d Okeene. Considerable opposition
„ab developed south of here.
Election to Settle County Fight
Oklahoma City, Okla.—On showing
' of necessary population, taxable area
and other necessary points by *he dele-
cates representing the proposed coun-
ty of Cache to be made from the south-
ern part of Comanche county, Gover-
nor Haskell has issued a proclamation
calling an election to be held thirty
days hence to settle the question. Old
Comanche county is protesting and
will try to defeat the “seceders” in the
election. If the new county is created
it will be the third since statehood
and the 78th in the state.
Cotton Picking Starts in Earnest
Guthrie, Okla.—Cotton picking is
now well under way in Oklahoma.
“First bales” have been reported fron\
the southern counties for the past
ten days, and are now coming into
the northern towns. This county
sold Its first bale at Crescent Friday
and that town celebrated with fire-
works. W. T. Miller was the lucky
grower. Joe Archer, white, sold the
first bale in Guthrie this morning,
beating Joe Heed, colored, by half an
hour. All were given premium price*
and good-sized cash bonuses.
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