The Peoples Press (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 15, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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Oklahoma City, March l.">.—Thirty-
six cases are set for hearing by the
corporation commission at the regu-
lar March court term, which opened
yesterday.
Eleven of these are against street
railway companies for failure to com-
ply with the commission's order re-
quiring filing of statements of origin-
al cost.
The street railway companies com-
bined and unanimously refused to
comply with the order. Some of
them appeared at the February
term, while others had their cases
continued. The companies summon-
ed are the Oklahoma Railway Co.,
Muskogee Electric Traction Co., El
Reno Interurban Railway Co., Bar-
tlesville Interurban Railway Co.,
Tulsa Street Railway Co., Choctaw
Railway & Lighting Co., of .McAles-
ter, Chickasha Street Railway Co.,
Oklahoma I'nion Traction Co., of
Tulsa, Shawnee-Tecumseh traction
Co.
Wichita, Kan., March I V -Ex-;
Chief of Police Frank Burt of \\ icli
ita pleaded guilty to the charge of
1 selling postage stamps whf n arraign-
ed in federal court yesterday after-
noon. lit' will turn state s evidenct
against those implicated in the case
with him. L. S. Nafzger, former
president of the Fourth National
bank, pleaded not guilty to the same
charge, while John Callahan, convict-
ed bank robber, asked time to con-
sult an attorney, saying he had been
denied that opportunity while in j:til.
j He will be arraigned today. His at-
torney stated last night that C ilah.tn
I would plead not guilty.
L. S. Naftzger, F. S. Burt and
j John Calahan were indicted at the
September term of the federal court
on four separate indictments, on four
counts, charging four transactions
I covering about $1,700 worth of stolen
| postage stamps from January to
j August, 1910, from Kansas post
offices.
CANADIAN AND OKLAHO.M \
COUNTIES GFT NEW .IEDGE.
Oklahoma City, March 15. Gov-
ernor Cruce late yesterday afternoon
j signed the new judicial apportion-
ment bill, and immediately thereafter
appointed W. R. Taylor of Oklahoma
City as the additional judge for the
Thirteenth judicial district, compos
led of Oklahoma and Canadian coun
ties, which was allowed by that. bill.
This gives the district three judges.
Mr. Taylor's appointment had been
expected. There are also three other
new judges to be appointed under
| tie terms of that act. Mr. Taylor
was county attorney of Oklahoma
county from 1899 to 1903, and is
now a practicing attorney.
FALLS FltO.M CHERCII
DOME TO PAX EMENT.
WASHINGTON I t >RE< XST.
Oklahoma: Fair Wednesday and
Thursday; colder Wednesday after-
noon or night.
East Texas: Generally fair Wed-
nesday, preceded by showers on the
east coast; Thursday fair; moderate
variable winds becoming northwest.
West Texas. Fair Wednesday and
probably Thursday; colder Wednes-
day afternoon or night.
Arkansas: Fair Wednesday and
Thursday; colder Wednesday aftci-
jioon or night.
Kansas: Fair; colder Wednesday
and Wednesday night; Thursday fair.
, . ,,.wl. ivTim law INITIATIVE. REFERENDUM
I'll E OREGON I'LA N . W"-*' ' ( AL.FOHN.A
Oklahoma City, March 15.—A real
step toward the direct election of
1'nited States senators was taken
when Representative Henry Vogel of I
Buffalo secured the Insertion in the
general election law, late in the ses-
sion, a section embodying the "Ore-!
gon plan."
Vogel's amendment provides that
all general elections next preceding
the election of a senator, the names
of all candidates for that office nomi-
nated in the primaries as they are
now, be placed on the ballot, and
voted upon.
The record of the votes for such
candidates is to be transmitted to
the legislature with other returns.
The legislature is not required to act
in any other manner than at present,
though the vote of the people would
of course be in the nature of a pub-
lie direction to the body entrusted
with the power to select the senators.
Sacramento, Cal., March !•>.- A
bill providing for the Initiative, refer-
I enduin and recall for all municipal
I ities received Governor Johnson's sig
nature yesterday and will become a
i law at the expiration of sixty days.
RESSIA SENDS El.TIMATEM
TO CHINESE FOREIGN BOARD
Pekin, March 1.5.- The Russian
minister, M. Korostovetz, delivered
Russia's ultimatum to the Chinese
foreign board yesterday afternoon. It
caused much surprise among the
officials. It is expected here that the
Russians will now settle many out-
standing matters, including the pla-
gue quarantine, the disputed frontier,
the protection of the railway from
Hung Tze Hu, as well as trade, con-
sular and other differences in connec-
tion with the treaty of 1881.
Oklahoma City, March 15.- The
breaking of a rope tied to the di ne
of the First Christian church, Third
street and Robinson avenue, at noon
yesterday, precipitated J. 1) Tiner,
a workman, to the pavement below,
injuring him to such an extent that
his life is dispaired of. The man
was hurt about the head, bis hip and
arm broken and it. is feared, hurt in-
ternally.
According to the statements of on-
lookers, Tiner was working on the
roof of the church, which is being
I torn off. He had* a rope tied around
I his waist from the dome of the build-
| iuj;, and the rope either broke or sli;>-
j ped. The man commenced to slide
and first fell about fifteen feet, hit
I ting the roof of a porch, from which
his body glanced off some twenty
feet to the asphalt sidewalk.
SOU HE VD OF STOCK
lU l!\ IN FORT WORTH FIRF.
Will Coins of Fort Reno, who re-
: turned this morning from Fort Sam
Houston where hi' delivered two car-
loads of horses for the government,
I says that yesterday morning more
than 800 head of horses and mules
were burned to death in the big fire
j that consumed the pavilion in which
the stock show was being held at Fort
I Worth.
BIG l.t >SS OF Ll\ E ST< t< l\
l\ LIVERY BARN EIRE.
.1 i :EI ERSON .JOIINS4 > VS
CONSCIENCE HERTS HIM.
A special dispatch from Denver to
the Qklahoman this morning reads
as follows:
"I have committed a crime and the
only way 1 can set myself right with
God and man is to pay the govern-
ment the value of the timber that 1
took fifteen years ago." These are
the words written the chief of the
field division of the general land
office in Denver by a conscience
stricken homesteader who filed on
land in Oklahoma, eight miles from
El Reno, fifteen years ago, took a
large quantity of timber from tracts
adjoining his homestead and now
wants to set his conscience right and
pay his debts. His name is Jefferson
Johnson.
It is the first case of the kind in
the west for years.
D.\N\ ILLE GRAND JER\
RETERNS :17 INDICTMENTS.
Danville, 111., March 1 5. After re-
turning thirty-seven indictments, only
fourteen of which were for political
offenses, the grand jury was dismiss-
ed yesterday afternoon by Judge
Kimbrough until April 17, the day
preceding the city election. No poli-
ticians, or leading citizens were in-
dicted, the accused being precinct
i chairmen and workers about the
! polls.
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IARK TELLS
B< >YS T<) GO SOI TIL
Chicago, 111., March 15. -Congress-
man Champ Clark of Missouri, the
I coming speaker of the national house
of representatives, has amended tin
famous saying of Horace Greely:
"Go west, young man; go west,"
and made it to read:
"Go south, my boy; go soiith."
AMERICAN'S KILLED IN
CAS AS GRAN DES RATTLES.
El Paso, Tex., March 15.—Correct-
ed details of the battle of Casas
Grandes a week ago indicate that 15
Americans were killed and 17 cap-
tured. Among the killed were R. F.
Harrington of El Paso, former ser-
geant in the United States army;
Robert Evans of San Francisco, and
Roy Glenn of Mineral Wells, Texas.
HECK THOMAS RESIGNS.
Guthrie, March 15.—Heck Thomas
of Lawton, for fifty years a deputy
United States marshal in the west
and southwest, has tendered his
resignation to Marshal W. S. Cade
of Shawnee as has also Deputy Mar-
shal Johnnie Freeman of Pawhuska,
for many years the Osage Indian na-
tion deputy. It is understood that
J. M. Bellamy of Lawton will suc-
ceed Thomas.
ST \TE Sl'I'REME COERT TO
OI'FN TERM MARCH 21.
Oklahoma City, March 15. The
, supreme court will open its March
term here next Tuesday, March 21.
| A number of cases will be submitted
to the court at that time and a few
argued. All arguments except on the
opening day, however, will be heard
at Guthrie. The court will adjourn
to that place after the first day of
the term and will continue to hear
arguments there for about two
weeks.
Tulsa, March 15. Fire of
known origin in the J. W
barn, which started at 9 o'clock last
night, burned to death 33 horses,
entailing an estimated loss of about
$7,500. The barn contained over
80 head of horses at the time, tie
majority of which were the property
of private citizens. All of those
burned were driving animals. The
barn has two oors, the upper entered
from the street. The fire started in
the basement inside the door. After
a half hour's fighting, daring ones en-
tered the upper floor and rescued
about 50 head of the horses. Dam-
age to the building in the amount of
$.">00 was entailed.
i NSI'El T< >RS I N VOICE
STOCK OF STAMPS.
Washington, March 15. Working
night and day for a week, postoflio
inspectors have made a complete
count of all the postage stamps stored
in the vaults of the bureau of print-
ing and engraving. There are just
1,311,319,607 of all denominations
and colors. The account checked ti
the last one cent stamp. Director
Ralph decided to count all the stain; .-
because of recent disclosures of al-
leged irregularities in the postoffic
department.
RED CROSS SENDS
MORE MON in TO < III N A
Washington, March 15. Continu-
ing its attempt to relieve the distress
of the starving millions of China,
the American National Red Cross
[yesterday cabled $2,000 more to the
I stricken people. The money came
I from popular subscription and was
sent to the American consul general
at Shanghai for distribution.
SMITH AND WELLS
WAITING FOR THE GONG.
Smith and Wells have both finished
their training and will take things
easy until the referee, Roy .I Smith,
i calls them to the center of the ring
tonight, to settle an argument of in-
| dividual supremacy. Smith lias made
two good showing here and needs no
introduction. Whether Wells is mas-
| ter or not remains to be seen as he
| lias never donned the padded mitss
in this section of the country, but
carries clippings showing that In- nas
never been defeated in any of his
! twenty-five combats. Both men have
been pronounced in first class condi-
tion by the club's physician and ill
weigh in at 4 o'clock at Jackson Pa-
vilion instead of at the ringside as
per schedule.
\ \ I.XTOR GRACE'S
RODX IS
•ol N'D.
Ostend, Belgium, March 15.- A
body was brought to the surface in
this harbor Tuesday which is thought
I to be that of Cecil Grace, the aviator,
I who was lost last December while at-
I tempting a return aeroplane ilignt
I from Calais to Dover.
Cecil Grace was the son of the late
J. A. Grace of New York anil a
nephew of former Mayor William 1'
(! race.
"BLIND MAN ELOijl ENT"
MIES AT lill'E OLD AGE.
There's something about a scolding
that makes the person who gets it
want to do it right over again and
this time escape getting caught.
New York Press.
The devil wouldn't retire on a pen-
sion of twice his salary if he could
have it.
EARLY MORNING I IRE
AT OKLAHOMA CITY.
Oklahoma City, March 1.1. A fire
originating in a photographer's shop
in the old Westfall corner at Main
street and Robinson avenue at 1:30
this morning damaged a number of
stores in the building to the extent
of $25,000. Chemicals in the photo-
grapher's place exploded and caused
the fire.
Bellefontaine, O., March 15.
Judge Wililam H. West, age 87, wide-
ly known as the "Blind man elo-
quent," who lost liis sight while a
member of the supreme court of Ohio,
is dead. In his career, he was a mem-
ber of the general assembly, attor-
ney general and candidate for gover-
nor. lie nominated Blaine for the
; presidency in 18 8 1.
\MERICANS MAY HAVE
BEEN EXECETED.
El Paso, March 15. That the 15
American members of the American
Legion of General Madero's army who
were taken prisoners in the fighting
about Casas Grandes, have been exe
■cuted by federals following the gov-
ernment proclamation to deal sum
! marilj with all captive* was the belief
■expressed here as a result of unsuc-
cessful efforts to learn their fate.
WINS FIVE PRIZES.
Chickasha, March 15. H. B.John-
son won the grand championship at
the Fort Worth livestock show Tues-
day. Johnson made five entries in
the cattle contests and won first prize
in all. The cattle shown were Polled
Angus and Herefords. Grady county
cattle have won the blue ribbons
each year. H. B. Johnson has been
carrying off prizes for the past ten
years. The cattle were fed near
Chickasha.
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Hensley, T. F. The Peoples Press (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 33, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 15, 1911, newspaper, March 15, 1911; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc123188/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.