The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 24, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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Gl'lHlilK, OKLAHOMA. MAY -•!. VMb.
WKItNKSlUV MOltMMi,
M MBKH S3
CONDITIONS
ARE WORSE
Chicago Strike is Going On
At former Rate
DUNNE STILL WORKS
Mayor of Chicago not Vi llling
BOTH EAST
m WEST
large Failures in both Ends
Of United States Same Day
FIRM IN NEW YORK
r dl weniner Forccd to Suspend operations,
To §IVC up hope of Settlement Secretary of the School Land Leasing MlXCd Up in RflilTOddS
_ Board.
MAYOR HAS STATEMETT
YANKtfcS ON TOP
A NEVADA BREAK-DOWN
LONDON BCSINESS MKN AHK^.KT-!
TING SCARED IT
London. May a.-Thc board of trade J
today |hsi.od an exhaustive report. made,
by Special Commissioner H. Cooke on .
the trade of Siberia In which British !
traders are aguin tuken to tusk f« r allow - j
ing other nationalities to e'.how them out
J! -A widening of thejo? * promising market.
tic;,eli betw<<u Hi" lumber dealers and j 'Vhe American. Dane and Gorman. " !
their drive: ■ umo touav w n many new writes Mr Cooke, "are already t here
lumber iirm toecam*- Involved In the and have raptured some of tho most
strlK-. their driverr refusing to deliver j fruitful field* of enterprise These rich
to I"•> i;otted lum- Wliilr thr .strike wan
Chief Counsel for Employers
Says (he Onus of ihe whole Af-
fair Rests upon Refusal of
Shea to consent 10 the
Employers' Terms
C'ihcago,
Bank is Thoroughly Cleaned Out
In ihat Stale hut Sixteen Dol-
lars Being Discovered in Till
When the Final Crash
Took Piace
WILLIAM CRIMES,
Who is a member of the School Land
Leasing Board and Secretary
of the Territory.
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« WEATHER «
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+ Washington. May 23— Forecast *
+ Oklahoma and Indian Terrtory— +
« Wednesday showers and thunder- +
+ storms; Thursday fair. O
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WILL RENEW
ALLJ.EASES
To be tor But One Year
However
ACIION miERDAV
Whole School Land Grazing
Question Goes over for Year
LESSEES ARE PROTECTED
H t'.nii.in i<i,st. M . i-t Duiiii''. a commit*
{e> of aldenni it .ml manugers.of the • x-
j nss companies met in a new peace eon-
Jerenee at the city hall.
I'. - Mayer. chief ...uniO'l for the Km-
11•>; ri's association. nave out a statement'
in whh It he find
The • m|i." :propose to do business
BimI will continue to Invoke every legal
n • for the protection of their m n
nni! pro|i.ii> That the employers are
right in the attitude they have asaumed i
in the controversy Van demonstrated by
the fart tint every term and condltloh]
tlirv Insi-Ited upon tt.11 agreed to by Shea'
Hii'l his • ommittee.
Notwithstardli.g this, however. Shea
row msi«t*4 i' .lie rxicompanies j
I .ill l.i' i<o> i oiled by ii - m order to bring ;
about a settlement of the strike This
Tie will n i r il" and e\en if w- were'
willing t" comply with th«* demands of
>1 ■■ a to lake sueii action would be
fiim*- wlii. ii no ia w-abidiitv " i son would
New York. May -The door* of the
Merchant* Trust rompany of this city
Ai'i'fi closed today.
The M--I< hauls' I'rust had a <*inital ' -u-i_i_-u--r_n-j_n-n_-----L.1-
stock of fSne.OOO and owed depositors mining company. speaking almtit the find
about |:'.i 00*i ft0. An examinutlou uf the] paid: "There is not ti - least doubt In
acres will be to lUssla's Increasing mil- \ • ompnny s affalra was made by the state tl„, WOrld but that tli- i • is plenty of gold
lions what the colonies are to the Hrltlih \ department In l ... int... ;:ird j ther. We
ln. i. The report of the state banking ||on before
l>lc>. Kven now Rii.man ImmUrani. In . ,h.
Siberia, peasants though they be, are
supplying the London market with butter
ami isr they re«|> their crops with Am-
erican harvesters discuss with Intelli-
gence their preference for machines from
Mllvfciukee or Chicago
company s
EXAMINING
WITNESSES
lind of Jim Woods Murder
Trial not yet in Sight
organised
because there have been so
of goal discoveries in thi -
It Is becoming stale anless
>iir company
many stories
nth west tlm*
you can pro-
Will he Able to' Harvest Crop
Without Loss Pending Final
Adjustment of Preference
right on Oklahoma Graz-
ing School Lands
At a meeting of the territorial board
for leading school lands, held y%stcrdu>
morning tin- sern tary of the hoard was
authorized and instructed to Issue len*es
to ill lessee* of srhool lands west rut
range 13 whose lease.- expired January 1.
1 !*)">. and who held more than one quhrter
section, for the full amount of their
former holding; these lenses, howi
L W BAXTER.
Auditor of the Territory jmd
of the Board
KICKS THLM Ott
MAYOR WKAVKR I!Af TO DISMISS
P1BL1C OFFlCiADS
Philadelphia. M.« M« •'■istello
and Smith, the dlreitots of public works
and public safety, having refused to re-
sign immediately. Mayor W-aver has dis-
missed them from office. li« tppolnted
Colonel Sheldon Potter to the nfflre of
put i. safetv and A Lincoln Acker to he
dbe. tor of p ihllc works, i'h.- n^ivor has
retal t I Klthu Ro9t of N«W York gild
TRIBUTE TO
ROOSEVELT
Indian Report is Lull ol
Praise
LAID HIS COURAGE
I irm in Face of Criticism for
Catholic Missions
IINE CHILOCCO SCHOOLS
| Superintendent S. McCowon In
His Statement to Director of
Bureau of Catholic Indian
Mission Tells of Schools
Religious Side
Former Judge James
city as his personal
rdon of this
Problem before Prosecution at
; Ctiandlee is to Establish Iden-
tity of Woods, to Prove him
a Triply Alurderer
" l-iIe leainsl'i S Mil liek against th« • X- t
*] i' s- companies In violation of the letter | HUNDRfcD TO TESTIFY
of their Agreement, despite tin fact that (
the men were told that If tbei itntck j - . '
the; would not he iv-eniplAx ed
"Thr Kmployei ussorlHtion to a man
"belies e« that the se\t n express companies
l ■ Jufti';--.l i stand tin 1 have taken
dii.I our firgitmzatlon will make ever\
• ' i|i ;ivol assist Hi'- e\pr Ks companies
in maintaining thr decision they have
taken Off course, this decision means
t It then will !■'• ro setileme.il ..f the. Special Dispatch to the State Capital
Ike ui l- - ■ il" 'it1' 'ti withdraw* Its d-. j chandler. Okla.. May When court
mands. hut 11 is tlf Vinly thing left for | adjourned here this evening, there were
to do ^ j still many witnesses remaining to be ex-
The expr^s cornvnlc*' w• r. unwilling j amlnecUIn the trial of Jim \Noods for the
to make any odnceasiona to the strikers. , murder of Mm Sophia Amee, her hired
Teh adjutant general is ;<i the 'It\ by j )nan „ni] ||lf, attempted murder of her
ord'! : ti' go\'-rn„i and • \ erythina Is | daughter. About one hundred witnesses
eai'i ; i" in rcadlneae for calling <
books surplus of tlJf«S.7;17 had been re-
duced by the examiners to $1,071,548.
while the examiners had increased the
value of some of the securities held by the
company, tin > threw out some others as
valueless and reduced the valuation of
others. The company Is trustee of a St -
000,000 consolidated mortgage ou the
property of tin Hudson Valley Hallway
company which is i consolidation 'if trol-
ley lines around Albany. Jroy. Saratoga
I and Lake George. The hank examiners
accepted the compziti>'s valuation of the
securities of the H.idson Valley Hnilway
com pa n \ held bv It. .The company was
organized in
In May. . the stock reached a high
point. _'9'i being hid for it Kdwin Haw-
1"\ was president of the company at one
time -
Tin- com pans w:ts closed by oraer of k.
D. Kllburn, state superintendent of banki|, SwrCtary Of the Treasury is
a notice to that I*
dtiee something to show for It But slncr |
we have taken ore out ati-l had it assayed*!
with such good results, we feel that we j
have something that is sat'- . The com-
pan\ I represent wHll T,-- at ol • to
develop its property, and d' M(r others
Vlll come Into the cnunti; 1 pi.e-p. rt."'
SHAW IS IN
TERRITORY
Hat Shown ^Jp
er. to I New York. Ma\ . l Miss Margaret
| ran hut o,,,- y nr. Iiolnir l mp. rnry Iran-. ' Jalonlk ,.f tiulln«, 'IV* « nui-o whn h
, hi.• n mi-siiiK from Si l.uk- s hospital In
I i:<«r«■'! pen.'.i t ti - final adjustment of
this c11\ since last Wednesday, has heen
the question o^ preference right upon found at Niagara Kali*. A telegram from
land ii'ill under grazing leas' - * I the girl's father, tin rge V Jnlonlk of
form* of le-ises are being printed j Dallas, notified the police of her dlscov-
but gave no particulars.
•ct being posted on the '
door*.
It was said today 'hat the . losing of the
institution was due to inability to secure
payment of certain large loans on which
the collateral consisted of securities of
the Hudson Valley Railway companj Tin
company was a participator in the Hud-
son Valley Railway company syndicate to
the extent of $533.5^0.
NEVADA FAILURE
Bank in Goldtield, a New Min-
ing Town, is Given Quite
a Financial Shock
militia.
"SAW OML ^ ACHT
CritMAN I.IMiK SHillTS A ItACINO
At Oklahoma City
GUF.ST OF V. M. C. A.
Speaks Before the Territorial
Convention of that Body.
Meeting has Been
Great Success
Special Dispatch to the State Capital.
Oklahoma Cll+\ Ma\ Secretary Shaw
arrived In the city tins morning on sched-
ule tlrrier He was md at the depot by
delegations frfltn the V. M. C. A tin
HEADQUARTERS
IN GUTHRIE
; B. F. Dunn now General
Agent of D. 1;. & G. R. N.
EFFECTIVt JUNE 1ST
Construciion ^ ork on Western
Line to Cherokee Will Begin
Soon--In Operation
By June 1,1906
GOV. T. B FERGUSON.
The Chairman of the School Land Leas
Ing Board.
were subpoenaed. There was only one
"• <l>« L'UKhl. r I O^tM.1. x. V M > M Th« , Soulhw. ,Prn ,rm.« ,I,vision. «ml . ttiz.-i,-
who escaped, and it is neeessarv for the I Bank and Trust compam with lial Miti .
prosecution to provo „,«( \v„od« is the|'^ STH.22T. has fail' >1 The assets s-. far f^t the city and municipal government,
stranger who appeared In Chandler short- ! discovered are Jl *-: "1 which $t>on j-
ly before the murder, leaving there the j hi notes. There was $10 in the \ault and
day that the crime was committed and " tlvp dollar gold pie.-, was found on the
V !•>
SKI.. , inquiring the way to the Ames farm.
l<ord Hrassex s | Jim Woods, wHo the n gave the name of
"•|. - ant In the trails | Frank AI\ln. was arrested In Ifthawnee
qpunter. The most di - .rgafiized state of
afTairs seems to .-xi-i in the hooks of the
bank. J. H Young, president of the bank,
is also president of the Go,d(lf Id-Llda In-
vestment company.
It Is stated that Young is in San Fran-
cisco with the bank's collateral, trying to I delegat
get assistant'
Goldfleld i.'
new mining town In the
New York, May
yacht Sunbeam, a
At!an! ii■ ' tip rare. «a> passed > esterday : hv Oftlr-r Kellv on 1'nion averfue and
\ thr steamer Kron Prinx Wilhelm. ' fined for carrying a six-shooter Woods
bound for this port. >17 miles from Sandy | was uglv «t the time of tjie arrest and
JlooK. The following dispatch ^o the As- j the ohleer had a ticklish jo'h in doing his
foclated Press has been received: i duty, loiter in examining the gun. Chief
'Steamship I-iron I'rin/. Wilhelm. ' 1a j Sims dis iveredMhat it whs oil" of a lot
Marconi Wireless Station, at Slasconset, 1 that had been stolen at Feidmont. the j gold country of Southwestern Nevada.
mas- . Ya - ■ 1^ sod on tl;< .."d of numbers being the same a Shawm •
May. at 1:4" a m. in latitude m.39 north, j gentleman who knew Woods talked to
longitude r,r. r.r. west, s17 miles east of, the prisoner, not tllowing him vto learn j
what the chief h fd discovered, and W« o«l* |
ftniflly gave this le'Ur to parties In Ok-j
lahoma City telling them <•' his arrest. |
Following up this letter, whhidthe gen-,
tieman turned over 1.. him..chief sim-= i Are said to 'Contain
went to Oklahoma City and the arrest <
>kla. Mavs John Halllne of; Sam White and others for many rohh. 1 ie
suddenly disappeared and j at that place and also here follow.-.
Sandv Hook, light vessel, the English
•jir ht Sunbeam.
(Signed! "RICHKR, Capt."
Has Disappeared.
Ppeclal Dispatch to 1he State Capital
Ca rmen,
this place.
GOLD IS DISCOVERED
Arhuckle Mountains nyr Davis
said to -Cc
a Rich Lode
1 - a if-- ■ ■■■( , , :!tl. wit I "in - ipport. j Then \Vi.ml wm ~ takfti to F.I Riiih t ■
lire anxiou as to s whereabouts. II- lie was Jailed for a time on a robbery
left Ills homr Saturday and all efforts of j charge loiter finding that Woods • -
the town have failed finding trace of him ; semblcd the man who had gone to Chand-
llalllne is a Swede about five feet and a J ler. talked with variot s people about Mrs.
half tall, sandy mi ache and light '-yes. j Ames, her daughter, and afTairs. tha't
^t Is sa d that he has been dissatisfied family residing near Chandler, and then
with his home and it Is thought has de- «—" «* •>-- •
ported his famil>. The police of Carmen
would he much obliged for any informa-
tion leading to the whereabouts of the
truant husband.
Have Started Home.
San Francisco. Maj —General Puns-
toiT. commander of the department of
< alifornia. has recei.ed a cablegram that
the tra1.sport Thomas sailed from Manila
for S.i 11 Francisco May 21. having on
board 531 enlisted* men of the Twenty-
third infan6\ headquarters and second
squadron of the Twi fth cavalry, consist#
fr.g of .il nfon and 204 casuals Twenty -
two general* prisoners and thirty-five
Sick w ;I1 he brought home also
Mr«. Llvermore Deag
M" M«« May < Mrs Mary A
Davis. I * T . May - 'Jold lifts been dis-
covered In the Arhuckle mountains near
Davis The Arbuckh- Hold Mining com-
pany of Davis, with J. B. Dickinson,
rotary has just hcji organised
r,ntlug of hii
this year, and will give proper time fo
adjust the many complications Involved
In any change of procedure, and give all
lessees time to prepare for any change
and ^djusi'matters accordingly.
The meeting was attended by Governor
Ferguson. Superintendent* Baxter and
Secretary Wenner. of the board. Wm.
' Grime* being In Missouri attending the
commencement exercises at Went worth
, Military academy, win •• his son gradu-
ates. It is understood that the board
: unanimously .favors the action taken.
A. convention. Thf reception lulr.1 until Vhd li ha« th. effect of letting tlif trholi-
0.30. I lie Moratory wh* lln-n t/ikt-n to ^ m;1tt, r s„ over UotlMr fWT. In th.
the evidence of Ite\ l-i-nuk I.. Ufl> ni'-iintim.' Oklahoma IriHy hi «i\en i*tati-
where he dined. Tonight Secr-iuty Sha. j «l;l
delivered an addraw before the . omen-] ,h„ harvesting of this
Hon. ||>- spoke on ' Young Men s Chris- Vf>ar s I l(,p^
linn Associations."
Secretary Shaw was much impressed 1
WRIT OF ATTACHMENT
B. F. Dunn aud wife are in the city,
,1 expect to reside permanently in
ithrie. Mr Dunn, having been lately
for this, and the force of th- department I appointed generil agent < f the Den
will be writing and issuing these lea«es
within the next three days This will
protect every lessee fu'ly In the use of
his land and the harvesting of his crops
Washington. May J.l In the annual re-
port of the director of the bureau of
< atlioh Indian mission- the following
l ommciii ; m ide 011 the Chilocco school
in Oklahoma. ■uperlnteii'Ied by S M. Mc-
t'owan. who was in charge of the Indian
school exhibit at the St. Uuils World's
fair:
One of the best and most Important
government schools Is that of Chilocco,
okla . wlu-re there were at one time dur-
ing the past year as many is Catholic
children. In this Instance the field wel-
the lahoirr. The superintendent is
I most favorably disposed, anil a good
I spirit'prevail- imong the employes. They
have repeatedlv urged the burea.i to pro-
1 vlde'a resident . hapliin for the Catholic
pupils. The bureau lias secured the sal-
ary for such a chaplain and arranged
for him to live with the prie t of Arkan-
I «us City. In the dloc.se of Wichita, but
i only a short distance <rom the school.
Th.- 1 idle if the Washington tubernacie
society have mipp'iled the school with
everything nwssirj' for holy mass.
( Continuing, the report states that the.
bureau has cotended that >") (Tathollo
children should hear mass every Sunday.
An unsuccessful appeal was'made to the
archbishop of St l.ouis for a permanent
priest. Correspondence between Super-
intendent McCowau and the priest is re-
produced to show the fairness of the su-
perintendent's attitude. At the concl islon
of*th.* report th. -following tribute is
paid to the president:
TR1BPTK TO THIS PRESIDISNT.
During Ills term of offiee the president
has performed many nets of Justice re-
specting Catholic Interests In the Philip-
pines and at home. 011 many occasion#
he has shown courtesy and klndlies- to
Catholic ♦clergymen and laymen; hut
whether he endeavored to give h - |iiare'
deal" to the Philippine friars or to the
Cttholl* Indian mission s -hools; whether
he recognised the virtues of a catholic
' itt7.cn or icceil to .-hake hands with a
He was escorted to the Threadgill hotel
wlTrre hn breakfasted and rested until l"
o'clock, when he was driven around the
city and afterwards taken to the resi-
dence of Dr. L. H Huxlon, where lunch
was had. At .!.: 0 this afternoon an in-
formal reception was given him at the
rooms of the Y M. •' A. He was gre
by many people of the city, beside all J
In attendance at the
Enid and Gulf railroad company, with
headquarters In Guthrie. This order
Issued by Ed U Peckham, vice president
antl k i.era! manager of the , ond will go ' dtgnltarv of the church, as. -for example,
'into effV'.-t jutu 1s*t and Mr Dunn will Cardinal Satolll— for every one of these
ipv I.fri"* With tIn Guthrie Realty | act*, ind many others, he has received
comp 111 y at Oklahoma avenue and Second j tondemnatory and Insulting letters from
I Protestant ministers of a certain stripe
This is looked upon as the beginning "f , fr"'n meddlesome professional pat-
the transfer of the general o#fl<
ulf tr
1 Jiithri*.-
iod«
has been
"ii ferenceg
•f nsm i-d by acts "f
and other church
I - He was threatened with de-
ti. polls, and there.were among
n 1 some who feared that he had
r-red his prospects for the presl-
with Oklahoma City, and often referred
to the progressiveness and energy of the
people of the west He wae driv en to all
places of particular inteicst in the <ii\w
and made personal ii"'e of those things
that Impressei) him sciiousl.v. lie pyssei]
'many compliments tuion the fine build-
ings. public improvements, etc , the city
parks, the phenomenal growth of the city,
and marveled at tl^ things that had been
apltaliz. d n'®de possible in the brief tim of sixteen
at and wil? t onjje begin devel- j > eaj-s.
w cijiiiiK the II id ot s Krge scgli In —cciv | •s>" sessions of the ! M. c a. conven- .
walked out to the farm, where Is alleged tainlnc the . ! . "f the gold ore found I tion w,"r* todn- th entire time he ' '
t.. have murdered Mrs \niop nnd her j tj,0) 0n*ider l<le investigation was made ! ln* 8iven ,n ■ ; tlon of Sccretan
lured man. ar.d also shot tlje daughter. Wflin. n, tkUv: decision as to wheth-• 8hav- « f"w' details pertaining to the cot,-
Who escaped to the home of a neighbor ( woull]
and gave the alarm, the Chandler sheriff t, ' ' ..
took him to that place, where he was I ' (1*
•ompietely identified the murderer of ' ' ; r. t, ..t fr,., an<j j has been a succei.- and much good has
come of the meeting together of the \
~ ii«. 1., .v, , M. C. A. hosts of ih. two territories A
The first font..! pn*ia '-.| I" to the t.-n, i, , ....
. . ,. ... ... large crowd .tin- ip trom Norman this
th - second -1' and 111 • t • v ice .-truck , .
morning to meet >, tary Shaw this af-
at the depth of twe-i ' -three feet. i o ,t .
I tf rtmnrr
the 8lze«if a hum.-t mnd. a phent.nienal
fin.1 was mad.- that produced gold at the
rate Of |44o to 1 ton* Th piy streak runs
about thre#> and a half feet wide. #nd
this will, average about $14 a ton This
find Is made on the highest point of the
Arhu&^cle mountains, and the ore is con-
tained lr> in Ignaclous rock formation.
the only rock of the kind found in ti >'4
Vmep family. Miss Am^s recovered
from her wound* and has since married.
She was the only witness to the actual
murder, hut her identification of Woods
i« strengthened by that of others who «aw
him in Chandler on that day Since the
Incarceration of W. ..ds at Chandler his
father, who resides in Texas, where lie
is highly esteemed, read of the affair lu
a Shawnee iaper and came here going
with Chief Sims to Chandler, wher. an
affecting meet^psr took ^aoe herweon
father and son The old man had believed
the bov^dead. drowned ii^ the Gal\e«ton
II
-aid I
,y to mine the property, j vo,l,ion s work and the address tonlgwt
„f Kansas «-lti. an ait- of ,he «cretar> «• conventfon In
.. ..r.- foiMd on the | J"™P"«hln* l'« l ■ 1""- th- meeting
surface, other at a depth of fiv
still more at *i depth of sixteen
j temoon^and hear his address tonight.
' BACK MI UIAI.I. IS SERVED AT ST
LOL'fs
j St. Louis Mo M iv 3?.-During the
1 Zack Mulhall exhibition at the Belleville
! fai. <rf> ;n<J> \> -terday afternoon a steer
i broke ^iway from the showmen and | i.ullt.
j Jumped a frii lie run underneath a j the
I buggy, occupied by Harry liagerlin antl
sister, of West Heilevllle, and upset the
vehicle. Miss II igerlin and her brother
but the« buggy was
. j wrecked loiter H;tgerlln swore out a
w i it of 111 . Jiment against Miflhali .- *
fit for tiie i"-- of the bugg; lit h « ■
tlie property "*f Frank Bux. i livervinaM
Tile writ w.,s served on Mulhall by ''on-
stable Yen k. .
Dallas Commercial Club
Special Dispatch to the State Capital.
Oklahoma Cjty May 28—The Cornmer-
< ial Club of Dallas spent last night In
the city, the guest* of the Chamber of
Commerce. This morning tlie> were tak
en for a street , ar ride ov er the city, and
DRA'NK ALCOHOL
TWO SISTERS
BOTH CHILDREN ,ted near the fJrleni dej < t The yeo-
DRANK If if SON BV MISTAKK p!- of Cherokee. In the:- proposition, of-
Ft Puppl; i tk.n . Ma- n.—Utile Carrie j f. red to#s«eure the righf-of-way from Salt
Hall and h r sister, tioldie aged siv I P|HIns Cherokee and the people in that
f'",r '' -p* tiv.-iy, daughters of < H vicinity are quite enthusiast! over the
Hall, living near Ft. Supply, found * 1 matter
bottle of alcohol and sweetening n to *
taste, drank the entire contents i4ar-: Registers School District Bonds.
died In great agony a short tlm- TV- • .
wa-vls. but by pi. mp work t i;,. . red itonrts %*.. coverings
Denver. Enid and
There has t ever been a |.m il agent of the
Denver, Enid and Gulf here and Mr
Dunn's location here will mean much to
Guthrie. Dunn has been the assistant of
vice president and general manager, Ed ,
L. Peckham On account of the large
amount'of construction work to be d"iie. |
and -Nir Dunn being a traffic*man instead
of a construction man. he came here with j
an Increase In salary, preferring that to !
the larger title. #
Mr. Dunn i« one .if the best known [
railroad men in the west having been j
several y.-ars. «li ; iot p,.--. t:gir agent (
for the Pristo ai Wl' hit . Kansas. He
liecame connected with the Denver, End '
and Gulf railroad thin win
The construetion work « n the Denver
Enid and Gulf will be pushed rapidly,
and the tw • new proposed lines of the
Denver. Enid and Gulf will probably be PLKW> MAN FOUND DEAD
western line wi"! probably be | ______
be bulTT. while some think
the one to Oklahoma City will also be 1
built. ♦
The construction of the Denver, Enid
and Gulf Into Cherokee Is now a certainty
from an article appearing In a Cherokee
piper to the effect that E Ij. Peckham
had visited Cherokee to perfect arrange-
ments to that end. The citizens of the* ,
town of Cherokee submitted a pr« posl- !•
tion to Mr. Pn kh&m. which he accepted. '
with the adduranee that cars would be
running Into t^Tierokee by January 1 I*"#. *<•,
and 1 all probability by October 1. !■**"• ! t>> p^ri \ about six years ago from Butler
The •erminal* of the road wi'i likely be j county, Kansas
: • ^vhen the American people spoke
.\ .11.1 with no uncertain sound.
ic.t ' seal of approval upon his
■ • -tin I'-'l, ist and liberal policy. They
him i victory unique in the annals*
; -Iilriif.il election*. It is not sur-
, I pri-uiig. then, that In rending the lenson
j of the recent past the wise men of ths
on have learned to distinguish he-
ui a sentiment resulting from mlsin-
iiio: md the verdict that will follow
I in the wake of (acts; between the bowl*
of fanatics and the voice of the peo-
ple. All honor to Theodore Roosevelt.
PAKSONS AN OI.D SOIjDIEII. LT-
1M5 JI 'ST IN81DHJ GATE.
| Spet ! a I* Dlspatclf to the State Capital,
IV • • ckli May :: -J. p. Parsons
was found dead at his home on east C.
' -treet in this city about 7:30 p. m. He
vv . «ng ju.^t insldi the front gate and
it appeared as though lie had turned to
..se the gate when he j"oll. It is suppos-
'1 that heart failure was the cause of*
| death
Parson* was an old soldier and a
and respected citizen He Came
j The coroner has taken charge of the
i remains and will probably hold an in-
quest tomorrow
In District Court.
| In th" office of h ■ !erk of the district
j court yesterday was filed i ase by John
I Collins vs J A. W.lloughbv receive- of f
Ml
i save Wimd>
t '< m ru* rc.e and
ireatiag.him< . .
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Greer, Frank H. The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 24, 1905, newspaper, May 24, 1905; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc125899/m1/1/: accessed April 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.