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THE ONLY SIMON PURE DEMOCRATIC PAPER IN OKLAHOMA
VOLUME 17
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY TJEtTBMrWR tO'tilO*
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KNOCKOUT BLOW
TO ST, LOUIS PROJECT
Special to Daily Leader.
Bartlesville, Ok la., Dec. ! . All prob-
ability of Oklahoma mis in any ipianity
being pijieid from the state was remov-
ed today when John 11. Brennun gen-
eral attorney for an 1 a director in the.
Indian Territory Illuminating Oil)
NUMBER 11
TILLOTSON TAKES TOGA
One of the unexpected political de-
nouments of Tuesday was the \n 4111
drawal of Jonn Sliufelt, of Nowata
county, from the content for the seat
in the assembly of the Second legisla
ture against J. A. (Hert) Tillctson.
Mr. Tillotson, it will be remembered,
was one of the members of the First
legislature, coming from Nowata
county, having been prouninent in
Cherokee affairs for thirteen years
FOLLOWERS FOUGHT
CATTLE WITH POLICE
(By Assoelated Press.)
Kansas City. Mo., Dec. I am n
WAS PROSECUTED
UPON INFORMATION
company, returned to this city from a
•meeting of the stockholders in New
York, anl announced the company's
policy on this question.
Practically all of the marketable
gas in Oklahoma, except that iwhich
is now coming into Bartlesville from
the Hogshooter field, is owned by the
illuminating company. It "ias gener-
ally been believed that Theodore N.
barnsdall of Pittsburg, Pa., controlled
the Illuminating company.
Barnsdall Directors Ousted.
After a hard fight at the stockhold-
ers' meeting in New York two weeks
ago Barns lall's directors were ousted
from the board, end in their . tead W.
L. Norton an.I M. F. Stlllwell of this
city iwere elected. The new directors
have been figuring for some time
against any but local consumption of
Oklahoma gas. Their election came
after a fight In which Barnsdall and
his proposed St. Louis pipe line ven-
ture formed the basis.
The Foster faction, beaded I v II. V.
Foster aivl J. II. Brennan, lei the
fight against tile St. Louis or any out-
side line seheiue. The fight became
so bitter that Barnsdall sulked In his
hotel and would not go to the Hoff-
man House, where the stockholders
were in session. Brennan returned
to-day from the meeting.
Gas For Local Uses.
Concerning the company's policy,
he said:
"There is no tiossioility of Okla-
homa gas in any quanity going out-
side of the state. There is not enough
gas outside of that owned by our com-
pany an.l the Henry Oil company,
which is already coming to Bartles-
ville, to make a pipe line a paying
proposition. Barnsdall "mis been t"ail-
ing on his connection with our com-
pany, and our ownership of the gas in
his dealings with outside cities. We
have been fighting for this control for
six months, and succeeded at this
meeting of the stockholiers. Mr.
Barnsdall's (directors have been
thrown out and the Ok lahoma -gn.s-for-
Oklahoma faction of our company has
won. The gas will be used in in-
dustries right here at home.'
WHHITLOW WIGHT WON
Special to Daily Leader.
Muskogee, Okla., Dec. 9.—O. M.
Wight charged by II. T. Springe.', a
stockholder in the Witlilow Williams
Drug Company, with arson in connec-
tk'ii with the disastrous lire that last
year destroyed the stock of the com-1
pony, after a trial pasting five days,
jvas acqulted by Judge Wolfenburger's
eJMnlon. on the grounds of failure of
convincing evidence upon which to
baso indictment.
The pending case against W. II
Whitlow for complicity in the defense
was dismissed.
Wight amd Whitlow weie charged
with burning the property and collect-
ing $79,000 insurance.
In the Republican convention f No-
er of the live children. The woman
and the children escaped and fled int.>
a h uiseboat wherein the\ li\<d on t ej
river.
I «lustily calling uli the available re '
serves into action, the police, fifty in I
! number, followed. When the police '
arrived the w mail had barricaded hei j Judge Thomas II. Doyle, <
I self in the houseboat, where she de Criminall Court of Appeals, la
going to die. I am going to get well fled the officers. Standing on the I evening granted an alternate
ami live to kill a Tew more poli enien. I port h of t e boat with a ah .-^un | of habeas corpus to Oeorge \\
Thai Is thonasertlon ol l.ouis Pratt. I w,lll-h sl"' 1111,1 l|i'"t'llrei1 1 •"> 'h
he shouted to the offii
LOYALLY LAUD LEWIS
einorial > ; \ \re conducted
ilie Criminal Court of Appeals!
members of the bar in the con- I
Hon hall of the Motel lone this
moon for the late Assistant Attor-1
(Jeneral Fielding Lewis Attor
West made the
WANTED IN ILLINOIS
FOLLOWED TO NORTHWEST
Me
wata county, last summer. Judge Will
iam F. Oilluly was nominated for tin
legislature, but he withdrew from the
race during the last half of Septem-
ber. The Republican committee sen
ed the proper notice of withdrawal
but Secretary Linn, of the election
board, was n t notified of any new
man being accepted to fill the posi-
tion made vacant by Judge Gilluly's
withdrawal, until the day prior to tin
election, when Attorneys Denton and
Bennett, both of Nowata, while at Cof-
fey ville, Kansas, filed notices f Mr
John Shufelt's name being placed on
the ticket. On account of this the
ballots were printed bji the local It'
publican paper without the Shufelt
name on the ballot and news of tin
filing was not sent to Nowata c uuty
by other than the nyiil. Immediate!)
after notice was sent to Nowata fl
local jurist, unaware of the condi
tion then existing enjoined the use ol
the stickers on the ball ts.
On election day there was more
than one precinct having no opposltloi
to Mr. Tillotson, but the Deinociatii
leader secured 600 more than half the
votes cast. and. n reflecting, Mr. Shu
felt refused to go further with the con
test, because, said he: "I was fairly
beaten, and there is no one more gladly
bowing to the public will than I:
hence 1 withdraw the contest and give
to Mr. Tillotson the open field f i#oli
tics, recognizing that as a candidate
for speaker the contest would, or pos
sibly might mitigate against him."
The withdrawal of the contest .-nd
issuance of the certificate of elect! n
to Mr. Tillotson at once places hin
str ng into the race for speaker of tin
i. a. tillotson
house of representatives of the ap-
proaching legislature.
Immediately after receiving notice
•f election Mr. Tillotson sent for his
friends and gave them notice of the
event. Mr. Shufelt, who withdrew
from the contest, is alleged to be one
among t ie foremost Cherokee*. and
one whose fame extends beyond tin
i nfines of Oklahoma.
The culmination of the contest has
greater interest in t ie raee t ip speaker
among all claimants for the position
the handicap against Mr. Tillotson be
ing thus removed.
Mr. Shufelt returned to his home in
N wata county. Tuesday afternoon
He takes results very modestly ami
affirms that as a citizen he has ne
time to waste in a contest where, if
the ballots were not properly prepar
ed. it was the fault, of his own people
In no manner does he deny the fact
that his selection by the Republicans-
was satisfactory t all concerned. IIis
acceptance of the proffered position
and the effort made to defeat the pres
ent successful aspirant are too late
as news items to merit comment at
Attorney General West says that '11 '!.ni0' . . ,
Peruna must go. In an opinion to C. Suffice it to say that Mr r.llotson
B. Leedy, county attorney of'Ellis 11 ? ""•"■PUte.l member ot the See
county, General West states that sen- ond assembly, formerly and now a
ate bill 61. the Billups law. makes it ;;an,1,idH e for ■Pcalker-■. Ioon,Is,
illegal to sell any preparation that horizon, this is especiall) true ol
may be usel as a beverage, which K , owata county Democrat at
contains as much as one-half of one particular time or crisis.
percent of alcohol, and which requir- 1 ludicrous incidents of th«
es the payment of the special liquor I tang'e was ^acI '',at t'u*
tax imposed by the United States ! ,a,e ()f nomination for Mr. Shufelt wa.-
government. The attorney general j a,,(>8tec* at Coffeyvilie, Kansas, an
holds that the sale of Peruna and sim- a,T've,l l'5e capital city that same
ilar preparations requires the payment niK^' Pri°r to the election, such be
of such tax, and that they therefore ,ing the causo of controversy over tin
TERRIBLE TRINIDAD TRAGEDY
(By Associated Press.)
Trinidad. Cole)., Dec. s. Maggie
Garcia, eighteen years of age, and
Francis Martinez, the latter suspect-
ed of having murdered four memiMis
cf the* (iarcia family, whose bodies
were found at their home last Fri-
day night, their heads having been
split ope i with an axe, were found
dead yesterday about twenty miles
west of the Garcia ranche. Both had
been shot, in the head. Apparently
Martinez murdered the girl and then
commit >d suicide.
PERUNA PLACED UNDER BAN
can not be sold in Oklahoma without
violation of the laiw.
LOZIER SUFFERS A RELAPSE
Robert E. Lozier, stato agency
superintendent, la seriously i:l at his
rexmis at the Royal hotel here with
neuroglia of the heart. Mr. Lozier
was taken ill while visiting r.t his old
hewne in Carroll ton, M>., but recover-
ed sufficiently to return to Guthrie
Wed nee jay. The railroad trip caused
a relapse and no one is admitted to
name on the ballots.
Mr. Tillotson. like some of his op
ponents for the coveted speakership
was the author f vitalizing constitu
tional provisions, and introduced tin
first measure which received not onl}
a unanimous vote of both houses bu
one that was made a law without
amendment in either f the two legis
laiive branches of government. Mi
TiLotson is an attorney, and as suel
has prospered in the rich count}
where he resides, and has been {
CONVENTION HALL WIL PLEASE
|figure in Democratic circles for man}
his room but members of his* family j years.
and attendants.
Mr. l>ozier lias been prominent po-
litically In both Missouri and Okla-
homa. He was for many years a mem-
ber of the Democratic state commit-
tee in Missouri, and wa&.a member of
the Oklahoma delegation to the Dem-
ocratic national convention this year
at Denver.
It is foUnd upon investigation that
each of the two halls planned for leg-
islative session in Convention hall
Contains more floor space and nearly
as large seating capacity as the city
iall. At the mass meeting We dncsday
_ | night it was 'declare 1 that the room;'
COMMISSION CONTINUES CASES were not as large as the citv hall
auditorium. The mayor stated last
The Corporation commission has might that the Convention hall was
continue,I all cases set for hearing at j now nearing completion and would,
the December term, rwOiich was to j in his estimation, more than please
begin Tuf'.-lay, December sth. until the legislator: after th examine the
January on acount of the railroads! rooms provid a for them, which are
now being deeply engaged in repair* modern in every respect, with ample
ing their roadbeds .Yimaged by the I cloak rooms, toilets, committee rooms,
recent floods. I etc.
self-styled "Adam God," the rellgi ii
fanatic who is lying in the general Ii .
pital here seriously wounded in a bat
tie between his followers and polie
lite yesterday. As result of the fight
Pratt's 13-year-old daughter, Lulu, am
Policeman Albert O. Dal bow are dead
ind two other policemen are' in criti
cal conditi n. James Sharp, knowi
as "E.ijah II." and who was the i
head of the little band of religious
thusiasts, is still at large. Shortl}
ifter shooting yesterday he walked
into a saloon and laid down his r
volver with remark, I am satisfied
I give up."
As there were no p lice present an
ao one seemed inclined to take hin
into custody, Sharp waited a moment
lien picked up the weapon, reloade
it, and walked out. He has not bee
jeen since.
At the hospital this morning it wa
said that Patrolman Mullane had small
. hance f recovery but that Sergean
Patrick Clark's condition was slightl}
mproved. A. J. Selsor, a bystander
lit by a stray bullet, is also expected
to get well.
How the Battle Started.
The trouble occurred at 4 o'clock ii
he afternoon when the streets wer
•rowded with pers ns w o daily ffe
queiit the busy market and city hal
listrict. While the trouble was ii
progress the participants traversed ai
mire block, the final stages of tin
ight being enacted directly across th«
street from an entrance to the police
station.
George M. Holt, probation fficer o
he juvenile court, and a pioneer ii
the work of saving boys from th
streets in this city, went to Fifth am
Main streets to investigate a case o
illeged abduction which had been re
> rted to him. Near that street coi
:er he came upon Sharp, who sur
ounded. by his companions, was ex
rting a crowd of street loafers. Wit
•Uiarp were A. J. Seizor, a woman an<:
live children. The children ranged ii
iges froip 14 to •'> years. The officer'*
suspicions were ar used by the man
ler in which the woman attempted te
s.-eure money e-ontrihutions from the
■rowd and he decided that she am
,ier male companions were not propei
persons to have the e-ust ely of younj!
children.
Probation Officer Assaulted.
The woman announced that she am1
Adam God" would conduct services a;
• reighton's or Poorman's mission, ne
dock north, whereupon she- and hei
ompanlons started in the direction o
the mission. Officer Ho t then ac
stcd the woman and inquired as t-
tho identity of the children. The wo
nan immediately assumed an antag
nistie attitude and replied sharply
that the officer "had better attend ti
is oWn business." But the ofifce
persevered in lis inquiries, wliei
Adam God," whose long flowing whit*
card and hair gave him the appear
nee of a patriarch, threatened the of
cer with physie-al violence. Officei
.1 It never goes armed and he foune
himself at a decided disadvantage
when the preacher and his companions
lisplayed revolvers. He stood hit
k und, however, and "Adam God
struck him a heavy blow behind the
ar with his revolver, inflicting an ug
ty wound. Holt then started lor the
police stati n for assistance and as In
moved away the preacher tried ti
-hoot him, but Sharp was so excitei
hat he dropped his reviver and w .e
he picked it up and snapped it at the
ifficer, the cartridge failed to explode,
•/let Police With Rain cf Bullets.
Officer Holt rushed int . the police
tat ion and announced that a band oi
religious fanatics armed t > the teetl
■vere at the very threshold of the po
ice station and he warned the offi
ers to prepare for trouble. The p lice
sergeant in charge ordered Patrolmei
Charles Dalbow and Henry K. Stege t<
^o out and arrest Sharp and his fol
lowers.-
The religionists were within 5<
yards of the police stati n when th.
officers stepped into the street. The}
gave evidence of being in a frenzy ol
rage and with profane abuse the}
served notice on all who chanced t(
hear that they would preach right "un
ler the eaves of the police staii n am;
the police can not prevent us." The
officers were not expecting serious
trouble from such an apparently in
significant source and were not pre
pared for the volley of bullets which
met them aim st immediately aftei
L ey appeared on the scene. Dalbow
was instantly killed and a builet pass
ed through Stege's arm. Other offi
cers hearing the? firing, rushed intc
the street and a general battle ensued.
The officers, as they stepped from the
building, offered themselves as tar-
gets to their opponents iii the fight,
ul were unable to shoot with ut en
Lingering the lives of innocent per -
sons. Lieutenant Clark, who had
come into the street unarmed, was-,
shot in the eye and Patrolman Ajul^
ane was shot In the back as he bur
ried into the pei'ce stati n for rein-
forcements.
3iot Call is SOundcd;
In the meantime a riot call had been
sounded and policemen were appear
Ing from all directions. Thoroughly
aroused, the officers cr wded in on
Sharp and his followers, firing as the
vent, but taking great care not to in-
jure any of the children, and when tn
firing ceased "Adam God" lay wound
ed. shot through the head and body.
It was learned later that Sharp's
male companion was L ills Pratl, fath
! CeMiie n, you fiends." The boat was
j but a few feet from the river bank and
I several of the more ce)itrage*ous offi-
cers, taking up the woman's challenge,
dashed toward it. Taken aback she
dropped her weapon and taking two
of t «• children, she- ran to the back
f the boat, out loose a rowboat and
pushed toward the middle of the Mis-
souri river. The officers called to her
to stop, but she only piied her oars
more vigorously. Without another
warning tile p lice fired a volley at
the- boat. One of the shots struck
Lola Pratt, aged \'.\ years, tearing
away i e greater part of the child's
face. The woman then surrendered.
At the police station later the wo-
man said her name was Mrs. Pratt and
that she was the* wife of the compan
Ion of ' Adam God" and m ther of the
wounded child.
Story Has an Oklahoma End.
James Sharp, the religious fanatic,
v ho figures in the sensational killing
if fray in Kansas City, first made his
lppearance in Oklahoma City in
March, 1004. when, late in the after
oon of a chilly day. Sharp, his wife
their son. a 1> y of 12, and a young
nan named Green, who announced
himself as Jesus Christ, all in the nude
ind without even the conventional fig
leaf, paraded Broadway in the Immedi
ate neighborhood of the police station
Phey were arrested and subjected to
Inquiry as to their sanity, but were re-
leased on promising to leave the coun-
ty and never return.
OKLAHOMA'S O. K. OUTLOOK
Washington. I). C., Dec. 9.—The re-
port « f Secretary Cortelyou of the
Treasury department, made public tei-
day, includes the following items of
interest to Oklaheima in his Indian
Im.lget for the fiscal year ending June
10, 1910:
Dawes Commission. Musko-
gee $
Support and maintenance of
rliools Indian Territory..
Per capita payments to Semi-
nole^
Per capita payments lo Mac
and Foxes
140,000
oOO.OOO
•.linn
. 1,000,0
Removal of restrictions.
tomoval intru Iers 17,000
upport and maintenance dis-
trict agents 90,000
easing mineral lands.
Creeks and Cherokee's .... 110,000
3Uppe>rt ami maintenance,
•Chilicco school 129,400
roteeti.m Indian timber
lands 100,000
Indian se-iiool.s, sites, leases
an! construction 300,000
Allotment of lands in sever-
alty 105,000
It Goes to Oklahoma.
f all the items contained in the
long list perhaps none will receive
reati r welconi" than the $3'>0.000 o
iniate for a (continuance of the feder-
I chain of sehoeds in Fast Oklahoma
now in charge of Superintendent J. D
lone.liot. The action of the treasury
lepartmeiit and Secretary Garfield's
ece mmondr.tion of this item paves
he w ay for favorable consideration at
lie hanirls of congress this winter and
i voted 'aill enable Superintendent
Benedict to continue his good work
arted several years ago.
Second in importance, perhaps, is
Secretary Garfield's plan to make ne*
eapiti payments to t,he Sac and Fox
ind Seminole Indians of Oklahoma
who have more than $1,500,000 to
their credit at the treasury depart-
lent . ri his action would be in
formity with treaty obligations and
he inline time cause the govern
nent a great saving as the monies in
luestion have' been drawing 5 per
nt interest for a great many y
V similar recommendation was urged
pon congress by the interior depart-
lent last year, but failed of aelop-
ion.
•Might Work Injustice
at the Dawes commission will be
inalde to wind up its worl: in the1 five
vilized tribes by July 1, 1909, as
ontemplated, is also made clear by
ccretary Garfield who. in connection
ith the $14 ),00'i item, recommended
or thai department says:
"For this and many other practical
asons closely allied thereto, such
s the contest of allotments, it will hi
npossible to complete allotments
istributo the funds of the tribes, elis
osing of the residue of the tribal land
allotments until they are complete,
aring for and sidling the segregate!
al lairds should congress provide for
their sale, closing out townsite matters
hlch are involved in suits, final set
tlements with railroads concerning the
•e simp!" of their rights of way am
qualization of allotments. The work
I < losin i tin the affairs of the five
ivilizefl tribes cannot be accomplish
d by July I. 1909, without danger ot
rave injustice to the five civilized
ribes ati'' ti •■ individual ullottoe:
:Ow an wei| as irn fianinb
jt/i-^1 io t n'v phirntlffs in the Betth
igon, Fleming, William Brown am
Levi Ii. Gritts suits, should they be
'.icccssfu ."
Naught, alias Orlando Drow n, of King-
fisher, who was c nvlcted in the Dis-
trict court of Kingfisher county on the
( barge of murdering for his mom v
Charles Madison, a negro residing
near Kingfisher, who immediately af-
ter selling his farm disappeared i e"p
mystery surrounded the case for
months, which finally led i the arrest
•f MoNaught, who, it was said, repre
sent eel himself to the negro as Orlando
Drown.
Two charges were preferred against
Mi Naught, one for killing Madison
and the other declaring him an ac
complice ta tin' crime. He was tried
and convicted in the District court of
Kingfisher count} and on September
20th was found guilty of the charge ol
manslaughter in the first degree. On
October L'lih Judge A. H. Huston sen
teiiced McNaugat lo life imprison
nicut.
The habeas corpus petition was pre
•ented by Attorney 1). K. Cunningham
if Kingfisher, wiio represented the d
fendant in the lower court. He set
forth in his petition that the defendant
was convicted and prosecuted by in
formation on the crime of murder,
which he assigns to be error, main-
taining that under the Oklahoma con
stitution and laws of the stato the de
fendant should have been prosecuted
under indictment returned by a grand
jury. He alleged that the court
was wholly without juriseMdtion in
he matter, that the verdict and sen-
tence is contrary to law and there
iore void. It was also contended in
the petition that the life sentence im
posed was beyond thai permitted by
law, the statutes merely fixing the
minimum at four years, the plaintiff
maintaining that the sentence should
have lieen for a given time, and not
for life. The courts of the state have
held both ways on this question,
r e plaintiff as a further allegation or
M-ror, maintains that the venire of the
iury by which h ewas tried was drawn
inder one jury law ami that he was
ried under the jury law enacted by
.he first legislature. The main point
aised in the quest i n as to "whether
inder the constitution and state laws
i felony can be prosecuted up n In-
formation" has been raised in several
courts of the slate, but >hat> -iu t been
i.issed upon by the Supreme cdfi'rt, nor
intii the present instance has a case
nvoiving that qusnetion been appealed
o tile Criminal Court f Appeals. Dis
rict Judges J. J. Carney, of Can*
linn county, and Stllhvell II. Russell,
it Ardmore, have decided tnat all fel-
>ny eases should be prosecuted upon
indictment. Nearly all criminal cases
inder the territorial regime were pros
cuted only upon indictment. The
writ is returnable Wednesday, Decern-
SURVEYED OKLAHOMA.
Leavenworth, Kans., Dec. 4.—Rob
ert Armstrong, seventy-eight years
old, a resident, of this city since 1853
died at home here today of heart
failure. For many years he was depu-
ty United States surveyor-general and
assisted in the sub-fMvisional survey
of a I; rge part of Western Kansas and
Oklahoma. He is survived by a wife
and four daughters.
\
Tho Criminal Court f Appeals con-
•nes tomorrow at 10 o'clock for the
cond regular*term, which will con
t in no two weeks. Tomorrow mem-
orial services will be held f r the late
oisistant Attorney General Fielding
Lewis, of McAlester, who was the
list clerk of the court of appeals of
ndian Territory. Addresses will be
made by Attorney General Charles
.Vest, who will introduce appropriate
resolutions to be spread upon the rec-
rds of the court; Presiding Judge
lenry M. Furman and W. II. L. Camp-
lell, clerk of the Supreme and Crim-
inal courts.
At. tomorrow afternoon's session six
pinions are anticipated, ne of which
will concern an important murder
The assignment of cases for this
week follows:
Wednesday, December 9th. George
Mderman vs. Territory of Oklahemm;
i. p. Price, vs. Territory of Oklahoma;
Westlle Yandell, vs. Territory of Ok-
lahoma; Al Douglas, vs Territory ot
Oklahoma; J. M. Oilton, vs. Territo-
ry of Oklahoma; Jim Wilkins, vs. Ter-
piory of Oklahoma.
Thursday, December 1' th. C. W.
\"eQuown vs. Territory of Oklahoma;
Frank Duck vs. Territory of Oklaho-
n a; Woejdson H. Morris vs. Territory
if Oklahoma; John Cannon, vs. Ter-
ritory ot Oklahoma; Nick Aide vs.
•tate of Oklahoma.
Friday, December 11. Monroe John-
ston vs. U. S.; M. V. McDonald vs.
0. s ; Kid Keliey vs. U. 8.; Dx parte
Horace H Hosklns, vs. Alex Stehp-
"ns; Alex Moody vs. U. S.
Saturday, December 12th. Dan As-
ew vs V. S. Willie Harjo vs. U. S.;
Frayser Tyner vs. IT. s.; Sbie Bene-
eld vs. c. s.; i;d McLaughlin vs
state; of Oklahoma.
princii-Mil a Idress, which was respond
ed to by Pre idiug Judge Henry M.
Furman on behalf t i taeoou • W. H.
L. Caniplxdl clerk of the Supreme and
Criminal courts, also pi-i I an eloquent
tribute to the deceased.
The resolutions are as follows:
Res lived. That the officials of the
legal department of the state of Ok
lahoma and the officers of t lis court
feel with deep sensibility the losi
which the state and legal preifesBlon
have sustained in the death of Field
ing Lewis.
Resolved. That we cherish the high
• t respect for the professional learn
Ing of the deceased; for the purity
an 1 uprightness of bis ollldal and
I ofossioual life; and for the amiable
ami excellent qualities which belonged
to him as a man.
Reso! .sl, That Mr. West, the attor-
ney general of the state of Oklaho-
ma. elo move the court that
resolutions be entered upon the' min-
utes of the proceedings of this count
Ma
111.. De
SEEKS SYSTEM SOLACE
Tulsa. Okla., Dec. 9.—The county
e:ommissioners of Tulsa. Creek and
Osage counties have agreed to ask the
.state legislature to change the present
yatem of tax assessment so that the
taxes on all institutioiij> el ing biisU
(less,srictly within the confines of the
f;ui>tie/H, themselves, thus taking out
)C tint bands of fite Corporation com-
nission the taxation -f street railway
companies and similar corporations
rhey hold that local conditions gotero
'he* value of the franchises and prop
orties with which the county com-
missioners are more intimately ac-
piainted that the state officials
FORGER FORFEITS FREEDOM
Chicago, III., Dec. 9.—Charles Lewis
-S years old, declaring he is wanted
iu Kansas City for forging thr
('necks, entered the detective1 bureau
and asked 1o l ,. sent back to the Mis
souri city to face trial. Tired of elodg.
i:ig the police and inability tc sleep
because of his acts, he said, prompted
him to give himself up. According to
Lewds, he wr.g employed as a e*ook by
Waterman & Co.. Kansas City, res-
taurant keepers, and November 0 he
forged the name of Mr. Waterman to
three checks for $9, after which he
passed them on two saloon kee| ers
and a clothier. He fled to St. IxjuIs
and from there came to Chicago,
where he spent the money,
HASKELL HITS HARD
Editor Phoenix, Muskogee, Okla.
Dear .sir: I am told that in your
paper of Dee-ember (ith you said tnat
I have w ivered on the prohibition quea*
lion and mused a suit in court to be
instituted dec iding against the vote
©pealing kricle i of the Billups law,
Now, dear ICditor, in your anxiety tft
rili« l/.<' j' Democrat you have been
n ckles.; in not ascertaining the facts.
Ihe at' irney who brought that suit.
L' n. Honr> Asp, i^; one « i be leading
Republican law vers of Ihe state, and
m ii tn Democrats who know him.
• eogni/. ■ him as a lawyer of high
'niidin • The judge wlm heard and
- cided the case is a Republican Judge,
.-nd no doubt decided what he be-
lieved to bo the law. However, I re
iscd to be bound by bis decision and
ould not open the agencies which I
had already closed, but have ordered
ur attorney to appeal the case to the
Supreme court.
I trust you will investigate before
you talk so much next time. Slneerelv
C. N. HASKELL. '
CREAGER WANTS TO BOSS
Washington. D. ('.. Dec. 4.—Al the
quest of Congressman-elect C. F.
< reagor of the Third Oklahoma district
the app intment of a postmaster
Hartlesville has been held up. Crea-
g<;r has refused to endorse William
Higgins for the place and may refuse
mlorse Arthur I. Morgan. He de
nnmls mat the organization get to-
gether on a new man.
Bartlesville, Okla., Dec. 4 —Two fac
tions in the Republican ranks are war-
ring over the appointment f a post-
master to succeed Arthur I Morgan
whose term expires in a short time
Col. Bill Higgins, a veteran of the
Civil war, is the candidate of one fac-
tion and Morgan that of the other,
with the chances favoring M rgan as
between the two. It is believed, how
ever, that Morgan will not bo reap
pointed because of tho differences be-
tween local members of the party
CITIZENSHIP WAS
DENIED MANY
Frederick, Okla., Dec. 4.—Assistant
United States Attorney George Out-
celt of Guthrie was here last week
representing the Government in the
naturalization cases set. for hearing at
this term of court. Nearly every appli-
cant for citizenship /was refused be-
cause of some irregularity In his pap-
ers or because of lack of some Item
of evidence necessary to complete the
record.
In conversation with a press repre-
sentative Mr. Outcelt state*! that in
some courts he has attended since the
law went into effect, every applicant
was refused, and that more fail to
pass than are accepted. Tho law is
very complicated and it is almost im-
possible for a person to become na-
turalized without a lawyer to prepare
b's papers and look after the proceed-
ings for him.
\fter a hunt
extending over two years, and in
which enough miles have been travel-
ed te almost girdle the globe, a man
said to be Libert Dickson of tills e un-
iv. a tornier member of the Illinois
state legislature, tias been arrested
and officers are now on their way back
' > 'his country with him, where ho
will be taken into court to answer
many charges i larceny and forgery.
Dickson, if the man arrested proves
:<> be Dickson, has just been captured
in Vancouver, Wash., where he has
been tor a year, and where he has
been, it is said, living a most exemp-
lary life as a school teacher.
Dickson Is wanted on the charge of
victimising stockmen in one of the
smotli. --t worked swindles ever work-
ed in W illiomaonsc shrdlu cmwfyp vb
ed in Williamson county, though one
not so original r pretentious. With
the confidence of the general public,
gained by a brilliant term in the I Illi-
nois state legislature. Doe'kson, two
years ago, it is charged, went into tho
slock section in the east portion of
this county, and purchased three car
loads of cattle, writing cheeks to the
sellers on the First National bank of
Goreville, Johnston county, 111.
Aided by Bad Roads.
Care was used by working tho
swindle to do ihe buying at such a
time when the country roads were
heavy, so that the holders of the
checks, which were later found to be
worthless, would be several days get-
ting to a hank, and thus gave him
ltnple time to take his st ck out of tho
ountry. and to the St. Louis market.
For the most part ihe checks were
ashed at the Lewds bank of Stonefort,
md when sent through lo the Gore-
ville bank were turned down, the man
having already visited this institution
ind drawn i ut all of his money, at the
same time transferring all of his prop-
•rty to others.-
As soon as it was discovered by the
men who had been swindled that they
were losers, efforts were made to ap-
prehend him at the market, but Inves-
tigation proved he* had already mar-
keted the cattle, cashed his checks and
left for unkn wo sections.
Following this most startling discov-
ry. it developed that Ihe swindler had
ilso been guilty of similar deeds In
lohuston and In Union counties, tho
alter Al this time being his home
ounty. Several charges of larceny
md forgery now rest against him, not
>nly in Williamson county, but In tho
'tiler two as well, ail growing out of
stock purchasing transactions pulled
it hin a month's time. The
linount of his swindles in this county
estimated at $40,000.
The Williamson county authorities
have been unusually active in efforts
o apprehend him, and the arrest in
Vancouver, Wash., comes as the re-
ult of such eff rls. Officers are now
ui their way to Marion with the man,
and here he will be brought to trial.
The whereabouts of the man believed
to be Dickson were learned as the re-
sult of the sale of property here. The
property was s Id more than a year
ago, and about the same time Dick-
son's wife and four children left here.
From that time until the present an
officer was trailing them through the
West, and up and down the coast,
finally ending by the finding of the
man in a school ro m as a tutor of
tho young.
In Midst of a Lesson.
The officer who apprehended the
man he is bringing back found him en-
gaged in instructing a class in the
midst of a lesson, and on being told
that he was under arrest and would
be bilged to leave his school duties
on the coast and return to his home
county to answer charges resting
against him, he was almost prostrated.
CANNON WILL BE SPEAKER
Washington, I). C., Dec. 4.—Having
received 125 replies from 210 Repub-
licans elected to the House In the next
Congress. Representative James R.
Mann of Illinois smiles when he is told
of the opposition to the re-election of
■I s. G. Cannon as speaker In the Sixty-
first Congress. There are some
especially new members, who do not
commit themselves beyond saying that
they want to be wtith the next admin-
istration. but there are many outright
declarations for Mr. Cannon, and
enough favorable comment comes from
those who are not so pe>sitive as to give
assurance that there is no chance of
defeating "Uncle Joe."
Mr. Mann sent out letters of inquiry
recently to all of the Incoming mem-
bers and has been receiving from fIf
teen to twenty replies a day. To dati
he says that the friends of Mr. Can
non feel justified in claiming the prae
tically solid support of New England.
New York, Pennsylvania, West Vf;
ginla. North Carolina. Michigan Illi-
nois, South Dak ta and Missouri, ill1
Kansas delegation is divided and the
Out of eighteen foreigners who ap
plied for final naturalization pa (iers at Iowa -'"'"gation will be for Representa
McAlester, eight received their papers t8ve Walter I. Smith if his name is pre-
ten being denied because they could seated, and Ohio would be counted for
not read and write English. Most of Burton. Only one member replied that
them were Italians. he would oppose Cannon.
The talk of effective opposition to
THIS PIG HAS HORNS. Mr. Cannon's re-election, however, is
dying out, and press dispatches from
Special to Daily Leader. Hot Springs, Va., today are cf a dif-
Muskogee. Okla . Dec. I - James Bur ferent trend from what, they have been
rows, a farmer residing several miles regarding a difference between Mr.
east of Muskogee, is the proud owner Taft and Mr. Cannon.
Other matters discussed were the of a freak pig that he values highly i —
niestlmis (.1 public highways an! The pig is one of a litter of seven ALLEGES FALSE ARREST
''' Arrangement: were mad' and is normal In every way except that Muskogee, Okla., Dec. 4.—Pretty
or another meeting about the flrst ot Just ah ve Its eyes piggie hail when Belle Mills wants $5,000 for false ar-
he year. Other counties will then be born two small hut well developed rest from M. Goble & Co.
nvited to send representatives and horns. The pig is now several weeks Her suit was being tried in the
:ocomniendati ns will be submitted to old and the horns have grrr.vin at least District court yesterday before Spec*
Governor Haskell. Ian Inch. ,lal Judge Charles Bagg. The young
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