The Peoples Press (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 262, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME I
EL RENO, OKLAHOMA, WEDXESDAY, DECEMBER IS. 101
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I'AVMENTS ARE DEFERRED
OX ALL GOVERNMENT LAND.
Interior Department Will Extend
Time to Purchasers of Indian
Lauds in Oklahoma.
Washington, Dec. 13.—The Okla-1
homa delegation in congress has been ;
requested to intercede in the behalf j
of purchasers of Indian land with a j
view of securing an extension of time 1
on the defered payments.
Secretary of the Interior Fisher
had refused to issue any order author-
izing the general extension of time'
for the payments, but upon the earn-
est solicitation of Senator Owen it
has been decided to authorize an ex-
tension of time in individual cases
where the purchaser is actually un-
able to make payment and where
sueh an extension probably will en-
able him to make all payments.
Commissioner George Wright has
been authorized to make the neces-
sary investigations and report such
eases as in his opinion merit exten-
sion.
The interior department will not
permit the extension to be for more
than one year ar.d it is unlikely that
many will be given that length of
time, a shorter period generally be-
ing desired by Secretary Fisher.
HA RGA INS—(AN
vol
KIM) ' I'M'
By ail El Reno lady who
makes 110 bones of taking oc-
casional shopping trips to Okla-
homa City The I'ress is inform-
ed that time and money spent
in that manner is thrown away.
Th<*e \vlu> go to Oklahoma
City shopping do so with two
motives in view—either in quest
of cheaper goods—bargains—
or with the expectation of find-
ing novelties not carried in
stock by the home merchants.
According to the word of not
one, but several EI Reno ladies
who have thoroughly searched
the Oklahoma City markets,
neither new things nor bargains
can he found over there.
The home merchants carry
just as many varieties of new
tilings as our neighbors do, and
a visit to their stores will con-
vince anybody that they can
offer equally as good bargains.
Do your holiday shopping at
home and save money.
NO MORE MIXERS FOUND
ALIVE AT BRICEVILLE.
Mine Owners Seek to Evade Suits
by Settling With Relatives
of Dead.
Brieeville, Tenn., Dec. 13. All
Oriceville again took on the aspect
f of mourning when yesterday failed
to bring forth more survivors from
the Cross Mountain mine horror.
Thirty-four bodies, some of them
* j badly mutilated, have been brought
• out and seven more have been lo-
*> | rated.
* All day yesterday mine wagons
% i moved toward the cemetery followed
<•> (by weeping relatives. Frequently
v j two funerals were in progress at the
| same time.
In spite of the failure to tind any
^ more men alive, the rescuers con-
j tinued their search into the inner-
1 most corners and crevices of the vast
mine.
Notices were posted about the mine
entry Tuesday requesting relatives
of the victims to give the company
a chance to settle with them before
arranging with lawyers to Institute
suit for damages.
. SOME FEE THIS—920,000
CARL MORRIS WHIPPED
AL WILLIAMS LAST NIGHT.
STATIK
FOR "LO"
IX NEW YORK
HARBOR.
The Fight Was Stopped in Third
Round So Severe Was Williams'
Punishment.
Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 13.— Carl
Morris, the "Oklahoma giant," made
short work of A1 Williams of Cleve-
land last night. The light was stop-
ped in the third round, so severe was
Williams being punished and so help-
less was he against the jabs from
Morris.
Morris knocked Williams down
twice, the last time for the count of
eight. Referee Walter Kelly, seeing
Rodman Wannamaker Will Furnish
the Coin—Congress Passed
the Bill.
FOR A STATE CHARTER.
The M. O. and G. R. R. Company
Takes Out $20,000,000 Incor-
poration Papers.
WASHINGTON FORECAST.
Oklahoma: Fair Wednesday and
Thursday without decided tempera-
ture changes.
Kansas: Fair Wednesday; Thurs-
day increasing cloudiness.
Arkansas: Fair Wednesday and
Thursday.
Yesterday's Temperature.
Report furnished by the El Reno
sanitarium.
Maximum ">3
Minimum 30
Set maximum - 46
STATE NEWS BRIEFS.
Chickasha Republicans have
ganized a Roosevelt club.
or-
The Salvation Army citadel at
Tulsa was dedicated last night.
Oklahoma City spent more than
$1,000,00(1 in street paving this year.
Tulsa has
Champ Clark
homa.
been designated as
headquarters in Okla-
The lirst bill passed by the senate
at the regular session of the sixty-
second congress was that providing
for the erection of a great statue
representative of the North American
Indian in New York harbor, says a
special dispatch from Washington.
The bill which was passed two
minutes before the adjournment of
the last extra session through the in-
strumentality of Senator Owen of
Oklahoma was not signed by the vice
I president at the time and consequent-
helpless con- j ]y was carried over.
that Williams was in a helpless con-1 jy was carried over. Senator Curtis
ilition, although Williams was will- j of Kansas, however, attached his sig-
iog to get up, stopped the bout to (nature to the measure at the open-
prevent a knockout. j jjjg 0f the present session, while
Morris who weighed 228 pounds Uerving as presiding officer of the
stood head and shoulders over the I selultc .
local man, and he. had an immense j 'phe statue of the
advantage in reach.' Williams weigh- svill l)e in'the form of
ed 205 pounds and was in excellent j ^e tribes that once
condition, but was outclassed in
strength and general makeup.
It had been announced that Morris
was to box Tom Kennedy at New-
York Tuesday night, but this match
with the "hope" who defeated Palzer
was changed to December 27 and tin
bout between
scheduled.
Morris and Williams
Indian, which
a monument to
ruled supreme
on the American continent, will stand
opposite the Iiartholdi statue of
Liberty in the New York harbor.
The money necessary to the erei
tion of the monument will be pro-
vided by Rodman Wanamaker.
I NCLE SAM READ1 TO
BUST ANOTHER
JOHN E. KIRBY ASSAILS
GOMPERS A XD LABI >R.
Alludes
as
to the Federation of L
a "Monopolistic Labor
Machine."
;bor
moil
Chicago, Dec. 13.- I
President Samuel Gompers of
American Federation of Labor,
the McNamara brothers were tlie
jects scheduled for discussion at.
terday's session of the National
ness congress. The bitter
against union labor made by
labor,
' the
', and
yes-
usi-
attack
Henry
Asks Dissolution of the United Shoe
Machinery Company and it-
Siihsiiliarj <Corporations.
Boston, Dec. 13. A suit asking for
the dissolution of the United Shoe
Machinery company, a corporation
of world-wide scope, was instituted
Tuesday by the federal government,
which tiled a bill in equity in the fed-
eral court here. The bill is brought
against the United Shoe Machinery
company of New Jersey, eighteen sub-
sidiary corporations and twenty-three
individuals to restrain the defendants
from "maintaining and engaging in
Oklahoma City, Dec. 13. A char-
j ter was issued yesterday by Secretary
of State B. F. Harrison to the M. O.
& G. Railroad company, which incor-
porates with a capital of $20,000,000.
The fee for the charter was $20,-
i 000, the biggest fee of this kind in
I the history of the office.
The M. O. & G. is chartered to
build from Oklahoma City through
Oklahoma, Lincoln, Pottawatomie,
Seminole, Okfuskee and Okmulgee
counties to Henryetta, thence south
through Hughes, Pontotoc, Coal,
Johnson and Bryan counties to the
Texas line, from where it will be con-
structed to a point on the Gulf of
Mexico.
The estimated length of the entire
system is 1,20 0 miles, and the esti-
mated cost is $40,000,000.
The company formerly was char-
tered under the name of the M. O.
G. railway company at $2,000,000
TAFT is ON TOP—
FRIENDS CONTROL MEETING.
Presidential Preference Primaries for
Selection of Delegates to National
('onvention Defeated.
Washington, Dec. 13. With little
TRl ST. trace of friction the Republican na-
tional con uiittee met here ye«terdav
and formulated the preliminary plans
for the campaign of 1912.
Chicago wa.' chosen as the conven-
tion city and the call was issued for
D. R. Carpenter of Dacoma, Woods
count, a Democrat, is out for nomi-
nation as congressman at large
The first annual institute of the
Washington county W. C. T. U. is
in session in the First Presbyterian
church at Bartlesville.
With a membership of forty the
Hobart city teachers Tuesday per-
fected an organization to promulgate
a course of study, to add social fea-
tures and to bring the parent and in-
i structors into a closer relation.
The Indians of Kiowa county will
not be molested this Christmas by
their paleface brethern at the Kiowa
Baptist Missionary, whose officers
have issued orders against, the gen-
eral visiting of white people at their
Yuletide festivities.
The site for the first log cabin to
I be erected by the Boy Scouts in Ok-
lahoma was selected in an appropriate
; spot in Sand Springs park Tuesday.
The Boy Scouts of Tulsa were offered
a free site and free material to build
the house by Charles Page.
Angeline Tucker, believed to be
more than one hundred years old,
who has been a follower of the
was a child, died
of dropsy it the
surviving son, Wil
Bartlesville.
Osages since she
.Monday morning
home of her only
liani Phillips, in
M. Wallace of Wisconsin was fol- unlawful combinations, contracts and
lowed up by an even more severe
arraignment by John E. Kirby, presi-
dent of the National Association of
Manufacturers.
Mr. Kirby attacked Mr. Gompers
and the McNamaras. His subject was
announced as the "relation of indus-
trial abuses to our foreign and do-
mestic trade," and called the federa-
tion of labor "Samuel Gompers' mon-
opolistic labor machine."
Mr. Kirby said its record and the
utterances and acts of its officers 'left
no shadow of doubt that its policy is
to employ any means, no matter how
brutal, unlawful or unreasonable,"
which will produce a condition where
workers are "absolutely at the mercy
and dictation of a gigantic and mer-
ciless labor trust."
the assembling i i delegates June 18
to nominate candidates for president
1 vice president. Acting Chair-
n John F. Hill, former governor
I of Maine, was unanimously elected
[chairman of the committee after the
! acceptance of the resignation of Post-
master General Hitchcock. William
Hayward of Nebraska, was elected
; secretary to serve until the new na-
tional committee is organized.
Champions of presidential prefer-
■ i nee primaries and state wide pri-
| maries for t he selection of delegates
ito the convention in states where pri-
i mary laws are now operative were
manufacture, sale and lease of ma-, defeated. They were led by Senator
chines, mechanisms, tools and de- J Borah of Idaho, who contented him-
vices used in the manufacture of j self with a minority report from the
boots and shoes."
The court is asked
conspiracies in restraint of interstate
and foreign trade and commerce in
violation of the Sherman act in the
to order the
dissolution of the defendant corpora-
tions into such parts that no one
of them can constitute a monopoly,
or can become a monopoly of the
shoe business.
DAGOES MAKE TURKS BACK UP.
Benghazi, Dec. 13.—A general at-
tack was made by Turkish troops
Monday. They attempted to break
through the advance lines of the
Italians, but were unsuccessful.
which he
a brief
sub-committee on call, of
was chairman, and with
speech to the committee.
The meeting was unique in two re-
spects. There was a complete ab-
sence of bitterness and proceedings
were conducted with open doors.
Politically the meeting was pro-
Taft. The president's friends con-
trolled the meeting. ^
A convention of 400 boys and girls
in Grady county was addressed in
Chickasha yesterday by John V..
Wilkinson of the A. & M. college in
junior agricultural clubs, and at the
close the Chickasha Junior Agricul-
tural club was organized with 225
members.
Crop prospects in Oklahoma ar>
j better than for several years past.
Wheat is making good pasture and
the recent rains have greatly improv-
ed soil conditions. Only a reasonable
j amount of mositure will be required
in the spring to insure a bumper
wheat crop.
According to dispatches received at
: Lawton Joseph E. Lowes, trading as
Luyster and Lowes, the firm of con-
tractors which practically built the
new post at Fort Sill, having held
contracts there, just completed, ag-
gregating more than $1,000,000, has
i ti led petition in bankruptcy in Day-
1 ton, Ohio.
Sell unused articles for
through the agency of a Press
ad.
cash
want
Ed L. Fuson and C. C. Connor,
charged with stealing mails t'roin
Representative J. Roy Williams of
Lawton, yesterday confessed their
guilt in that offense and received a
five-year sentence to state prison
County Attorney J. A. Fain has their
written confession. It is said to ini
plicate others.
Want ads—-one cent a vrord.
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Hensley, T. F. The Peoples Press (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 262, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 13, 1911, newspaper, December 13, 1911; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc123416/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.