The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1897 Page: 2 of 5
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dicates the importance attached by
experienced railroad men to legisla-
tion which interested men are so
j heartily commending to the attention
of Congress.
PROPOSED LAWS CALLED
REVOLUTIONARY.
PARDON FORMAUDE LEWIS
A RADICAL INTERVIEW.
President Hmlth of the Louisville A Nash-
ville System Vigorously Denounces
the Proposition to (Jive the Id*
terstate Commerce Commis-
sion Moro Power to
liefulste Rnllroa<k
Louisville, Ky., Nov. 29. —Milton
H. Smith, president of the Louisville
■& Nashville railroad, said to-day of
pending railroad legislation by Con-
gress: "As to scalping, that is largely
a moral question and an immoral prac-
tice, which the law, as it stands,
should suppress and the railroads
must suppress. As to the pooling pro-
visions proposed, they are not of suf-
ficient importance to require much
attention from railroad managers.
Pooling will not be obligatory, and
pooling rates have to be approved by
the interstate commerce commission.
The whole thing is delusive. I should
like to say the proposition is intended
to deceive the public and the railroads
as to the revolutionary character of
the proposed legislation. I used the
word revolutionary advisedly, and the
movement is one which should arouse
public attention and secure not public
approval, but public condemnation.
"Much misinformation ha& been cir-
culated concerning the effect of recent
judicial decisions concerning the in-
terstate commerce commission. The
public has been informed officially
that these decisions have 'emasculated
the commission,' that they iiave de-
stroyed its usefulness, that it has been
deprived of power cO|i)ft;rijpd by Con-
gress to fix rates and that the power
thus taken away must bg conferred
by congress in the language not sub-
ject to misinterpretation. There is
■evidently an organized movement
■directed by shrewd and interested men
to confuse the whole matter. Every
assumption ife false. The commission
has been deprived of no power ever
given it by congress; all the useful-
ness it ever possessed, it possesses to-
day. All that the courts have done
has been to check a tendency of or-
ganized political agencies to extend
their power in new fields. The public
should no longer be deceived. The
purpose of proposed legislation is not
to restore to the commission something
it has lost, but to give it some-
thing it has never possessed—some-
thing it could not use safely and some-
thing that never should be given it.
"I wish to state the facts with all
the emphasis of which I am capable.
The proposed changes are radical and
revolutionary, affecting not simply
the railroads, but the whole character
of the government. It is not possible
for one commission to fix rates, settle
the innumerable controversies daily
arising between lines, between ship-
pers, between cities. Such a power
should not ovist anywhere to-duy. To
give it to a single commission or to
endow it with an influence over the
lives, the prosperity and the futures
of the private citizens no goverment
here, and few governments abroad,
have ever tried to assume in
times of peace. Vet this feature of
the proposed bill is ignored in all pub-
lic discussions. We hear much of
pooling and scalping; we hear nothing
of this other scheme, stalking into
Congress, behind the pooling and anti-
scalping measures, claiming the ap-
proval of the public upon palpably
false pretenses. These false pretenses
should be at once exposed aud the
people should not be kept iu ignorance
of the ett'ectof such a revolutionary
measure upon the whole character of
the government."
On all ordinary matters Mr. Smith is
ri <dly reticent, and this interview in-
| lit I.oulsans, Who Itelteve In'tler lunu-
cence, Working for Morrlssey's Slayer.
fcfr. Louis, Mo., Nov. 29.—W. E.
Avery, who was a clerk of the assem-
bly at Jefferson City last year, is one
of several leaders of a movement,
which is said to be well under way in
this city, to seeure a pardon for Maude
Lewis, who is in the penitentiary
under a fifteen year sentence for the
murder of State Senator Peter Mor-
rissey here two years ago. Those who
favor the woman's release believe that
Alport Andrews killed Morrissey, as
he testified at the trial that he had
done. Andrews is said to have aban-
doned his drug habits and now to be
a steady industrious carpenter. He
lias embodied his discredited testi-
mony iu an affidavit, which will be
forwarded with the proper petitions,
when they shall have been prepared,
to the Governor.
M IS MIS iS 111
A (irocer's Klcli Cleric I>ea«l.
ST. Joseph, Mo., Nov. 29.—-Thomas
W. Flynn, a grocer's clerk, but the
n.vner of property worth 875,000, died
here yesterday from consumption. He
Inherited his money from his father,
tpent none of it and added to it. Ha
was a day laborer at times, but had
worked in the grocery the last eight
fears. One of his buildings alone
jave him an income of 8100 a month,
tar more than he earned at his work.
The only surviving relative is a sister
|d Montana, who will probably inherit
fche property.
Autonomy Decree. •
M a nni i), Nov —The Official
Gazette publishes tins morning the
royal decrees granting autonomy to
Cuba and Porto Rico, thus removm<r
the anxiety that had begun to be ex-
pressed on all sides as the result of
the government's reticsuce and unex-
plained delay.
Found I)c;i<1 on tilt. Tracks.
Omaha, Neb., Nov. 26.—Bud Scott,,
late of Highlands, Kan., was found
dead yesterday morning under a via-
duct leading across the Union Pacific
tracks to an implement warehouse,
fnvestigation developed tiiat lie was
murdered. Robbery w'as the sip-
posed object.
To Guard Against Invasion.
Washington. Nov. 29. — Secretary
Bliss has taken prompt action to avert
a possible invasion of the Wichita res-
ervation in Oklahoma by whites with
the idea of forcing upon Congress the
opening of the country to white set-
tlement.
Kansas Youth Kilt* Himself.
CHANUTK, Kan., Nov. 29. — Xed
M yers, a young man about 20, com-
mitted suicide at his father's house by
shooting himself in the head. It is
thought the use of alcohol and too
much novel reading were the causes.
NO CHANGE IN AUSTRIA'S
UNTERHAUS.
IN STILL MORE DISGRACE?.
The Otst urbances of the Past Few Days
Repeated—Paper Wads Thrown at
the President—Sittings Suspend-
ed— Dr. WolfT Gagged and
He moved by Force
From the House.
Vienna, Nov. 29.—When the presi-
dent of the lower house of the Reichs
rath, Dr. Abrahamovies, appeared this
morning there was a clior s of "Shame
upon you" fr im the Lp tlsts, accom
panied by a afening no of whis-
tles and slamming of desk lids. Many
of the Leftists gathered in front of
the president's platform, shouting and
blowing tin trumpets and flutes, while
the president was ringing his bell for
order. This scene lasted about a quar-
ter of an hour, during which time the
president remained seated. Then he
suspended the sitting.
As President Abrahamovies was
leaving the house a number of Left-
ists pelted him with paper balls.
Thereupon the president returned and
stood unmoved as the house was filled
with the noise caused by trumpet
blowing, hand clapping and other dis-
turbances upon the part of the dis-
turbers After waiting ten minutes
and the uproar continuing the presi-
dent left the . platform. During his
absence the noise was not abated.
Dr. Wolff, the German Nationalist
leader, and one of the suspended
members of the house, entered about
that tune, but was forcibly Ejected by
the police, to which he offered a vio-
lent resistencc. According to one ac-
count he had to be gagged and was
afterwards bundled into a' cab and
taken to a police station.
At lo:40 o'clock the vice president
appeared and declared the sitting
closed, adding that the date for the
next session would be communicated
to the members of the house by letter.
. The Reic'nswihr to-day declares that
yesterday's uproar in the lower house
of the Reichsrath had no connection
with the campaign against the lan-
guage ordinance, but was due to the
action of the Social Democracy,
"which considers that the time has
arrived to complete its destructive
work against the state and empire."
In view of this fact the state will not
and cannot yield.
His Second Murder in Six Mont lis.
Vinita, I. T., Nov. 29.—John Davis
shot and instantly killed Alex Chou-
teau iu a saloon at this place early
yesterday morning. Roth were gamb-
ling. This is the second man Davis
bas killed within the past six months
Pension Attorney Disbar: e d.
Washington, Nov. 29.—J. T. Lynch,
pension claim attorney of Houston,
Mo., was to-day disbarred from prac-
tice, for overcharging a pensioner.
THE MARKETS.
E nsat City Uraln and Live Stock.
Hard Wheat — No. 1. 86c; Na 2, 80c;
Ka 3. 84c: No. 4, 81c; rejected. 72:.
Soft Wheat—No. 1. 93@94c; No 2. 93c;
Na 8, 90(4e Na 4, 86c rejected, 80<tJ82c
Spring Wheat—Na 2, 83c; Na 3, 81c; ref-
lected, 77 79c.
Corn —Mixed—No. 2 £8^5; No. 3. 23V;
Na 4, 23c. no grade, 21@22c. White cora
—Na 2, 24c; Na 3, 23V4C; Na 4, 23!*c.
Cattle—Receipts, 2 075; calves, 508; ship*
ped, 2,9 >2 cattle, 268 calves. The market
ivas weak and slow.
Dressed beef and shipping steers, $3 j03
1.90; native h«'fers, f3,60j}4.Q0;
! Mr. Dyer is a Campbellite minister of
| this county. Roth the parties are of
high standing. Mrs. Dice was form-
srly of Kentucky.
I.oil Lackey's Trial.
Richmond, Mo., Ntv. 29.—Judge
Broaddus has set Monday, November
29, for the trial of Lon Lackey,
charged with being an accomplice in
the murder of Mrs. Winner and chil-
dren near Richmond, October 2ti, lb96.
Winner and Nelson, the other two
men charged with the murder, were
taken from the jail at Lexington and
lynched. Lackey was not in the jail
at the time. A woman stated that
Lackey held the horses while the
other two men committed the murder.
lietter Than I.esal Dollars.
Sax F«anci3co, Nov. 29.—Dollars
be(,er in the quantity of silver they
?cntain than those turned out by the
United States mint are in circulation
here. Several of them have been de-
tected at the United States sub-treas-
ury. So good an imitation of the gen-
niue is this bogus coin that it passes
current at the banks and there are
few clews as to the manufacture.
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WEDDED TOO HASTILY.
Divorce Granted to Mrs. Dice in the
Morning Set Aside In the Afternoon.
Hamilton, Mo. , Nov. 29.—Yesterday
was divorce day in the circuit court at
Kingston. About 11 o'clock Judge
Broaddus heard the case of Mary Dice
vs. Jerry Dice. Among those who tes-
tified in Mrs. Dice's behalf was Rev,
Mr. Jacob E. Dyer. At the con-
clusion of the hearing Judge Rroaddus
announced that a divorce would be
granted. Neither the judge or clerk
made any entry in their journals.
Mrs. Dice and M> . Dyer left the court
room immediately, went direct to the
recorder's office, where a marriage li-
cense was issued in the fair plaintiff's
maiden name, thence direct to Justice
I'rickett's otliee and were married. At
the noon recess Judge Broaddus
heard of the affair, and when
court convened after dinner he
set aside the decree of divorce
and dismissed the case. In
the meantime, the alleged wedding
couple had departed for their home at
Bonanza, six miles distant. The out-
some of the case created a sensation.
Judge Broadlus in reversing the de-
cree, took occasion to condemn, in
strong words such ha^ty tnarria£--~-i
A flay market Otlicer Demi.
Chicago, Nov. 2 .— Patrick Hart-
ford, one of the policemen wounded in
the llnymiii Ket riot and a pensioner
af the police department, died at the
rounty hospital last night. Sixteen
surviving members of the company
which stood with him on the memor-
able night will aet as honorary pall-
be a ret's.
An Ex-Jud^e Kills Himself.
Lit ti. e Rock. Ark., Nov. —F. N.
Neal, ex-judge of Union county, com-
mitted suicide by shooting at his home
in Junction <ity this morning. He
was 72 years old. No motive is known]
Address to Mi'Siouri Ex-Confederates.
St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 29.—General
Vincent Marmaduke of Sweet Springs,
Mo., who was recently appointed by
the ex-Confederate veterans of Mis-
souri as chairman of a committee to
write an authentic history of the part
Missouri and Missourians took in the
civil war, has issued a remarkable ad-
dress to the ex-Confederates of Mis-
souri, and says in part:
"The honor and glory of this great
struggle was with the South, and
Southern soldiers ought, in justice to
themselves and their dead comrades,
to preserve the memory of it. While
the North and Northern soldiers are
inveighing against all manifestation
of sectional feeling, they are erecting
monuments to their successful leaders
and telling the story very much to
their credit and to our detriment.
"The North had more than four
soldiers to one in the South. Its ar-
mies were reinforced and assisted by
600 ships of war, manned by 35,000
sailors. It had unlimited credit, which
meant an unlimited supply of money.
It had factories to manufacture every
th g ne. h'U to arm and equip, to
supply and maintain its armies
and fleets. It had railroads run-
ning in every direction for the
transportation of its troops. It
had intercourse with the whole world,
and could draw recruits for its army
and navy from the whole world. The
South had none of these advantages,
or had them only to a limited extent.
But, notwithstanding all its advan-
tages, it took the North four years to
crush the South, and then it did it by
a grinding process, and without hav-
ing gained a single decisive victory."
BRIBERY INVESTIGATION.
Missouri Politicians Indicted—A Juror
Indicted for Perjury.
Jefferson Citv, Mo., Nov. 29.—It is
reported that the grand jury has in-
dicted "Fire Alarm" Flanagan and A.
W. Eisner, of this city, for attempt-
ing to bribe a senate clerk to destroy
the civic federation school bill last
winter. •
The grand jury indicted J. Henry
Baer for perjury. Baer is the 'juror
who hung the McKenzie jury because
he said his conscience would not let
him vote for a verdict which would
catse the death penalty to be in-
flicted. Before he was accepted as a
juror he had sworn that he had no
eonscientious scrupies against hanging.
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Gilstrap, H. B. & Gilstrap, Effie. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, December 3, 1897, newspaper, December 3, 1897; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc115361/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.