The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 74, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 17, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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RI1SY W ANT A y°ur a^vertising matter in early far the Big Sunday Edition of the Sfclo Capital, it is the want ad directory of the
DUO I tt An 1 Stato of Oklahoma. All copy should be in not later than 12 o'clock, noon, Saturday, to assure proper classification.
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VOLUME XXI.
SATURDAY MORNING
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA JULY 17, 1909,
SATURDAY MORNING
NUMBER 69.
All Ready i ir The Barn Dance
LETTER TWO
STATE CAPITAL TAKES
PLEASURE IN PRINTING
COMMUNICATION.
IPUBLIC JUDGES CREDIBILITY
Haskell, His Employe and His:
Friend State One Thing and;
Mr. Chappell Another—It Seems}
to Be Entirely a Question of
Veracity.
Again the State Capital lakes
pleasure in producing a letter writ-
ten by the governor of Oklahoma.
C N. Haskell, addressed to the Edi-
tor of the State Capital, but which in
reality is h public statement, it hav-
ing been given to the press by the
governor.
In the firat letUu. written hy the
governor, on the subject of the Re-
ferendum petitions, this week, he
endeavored to leave the impression
that Joe Norris, chairman of the re-
publican state central committee, was
not' in the city during the time the
Referendum petitions were toeing
filed, which the governor must have
known was an endeavor to twist i
statement so as to leave, the impres
Hi on tha t there had been neglect,
when as a matter of fact there had
-been none, the Referendum petitions
having been properly prepared and
regularly tilled with the secretary ol
cato and receipted for by him.
WRITTEN FOR PUBLICATION.
The State Capital printed the gov
Brnor's letter, just as he desired that
It should be, it having been written
for the purpose of getting it pub-
lished and offered to every newspaper
man in the city who happened alonft.
This second letter of the gover-
nor, and which follows, is occassion-
ed by a statement which accompani-
ed the first letter in which the State
Capital said that It hoped that the
governor had not got his dates mixed
as to what happened on May 29, the
day the governor made affidavit that
he was in his office from ten o'clock
in the morning until six o'clock in
the evening.
HE MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT.
! The governor is wrong, entirely
DEADLY
From the NEW YORK HERAUD.
TAKES HIS LIFE
JACOB GEHRING, PROPRIE-
TOR OF OKLAHOMA CITY
ROOMING HOUSE, SUICIDE
USES AN UNIQUE METHOD
LOOKING FOR HIM
POrOHKKEPSIE. N Y.. July 16.—Nc
the slightest clue litis been discovered t
the whereabouts of Thomas 8. Edward
merchant and school tax collector of ti:
town of Marlborough, l ister county, wli
has been missing from his home aima
week ago last Friday, and the case .
enveloped in mystery.
Hunting parties with bloodhounds hav
searched the hills and countryside f.
miles around without finding a trace ■
the missing man. and it is feared that !
has met with foul plav. Mr. Edwart
•is thirty years eld and married.
Goes to St. Louis and Choses Mar-
uette Hotel for the Daed.
Leaves Note Apologizing to fireball ReSUltS
Management Motive for the
Act Remains a Mystery. western association.
Guthrie 6. El Reno 0.
Pittsburg 4. Webb City 8.
Bartlesville 2. Muskogee 3.
Enid 2. Springfield 3.
TttKEATEKEDDAMAGE 525,000
MURDER MYSTERY DEEPENS
Another Anonymous Letter Re-
ceived by Bartlesville Newspa-
per in Connection With the
Deckard Case Handwriting
Same as in Dynamiting Threat.
LOSSES BY STORM GENERAL.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 4
MRS. EDDY IS 88
BARTLESVILLE, Okla., July 16.—A
mysterious letter writer's freah contri-
tion, the new theory of the police that
the victim was killed In this ctty and his
body hauled to the country, and the re-
lease of the widow of the victim from
jail—these are the developments in the
Deckard murder case, the most baffling
that Washington county officers ever
had to deal with.
The letter, upon which the police are
basing their belief that Deckard was not
murdered anywhere near the spot where
the body was founu, was received by the
Dally Enterprise Friday morning. Its
contents are being suppressed to enable
the officers to follow up th>- clue it out-
line*. nowever, it Is known that the
police have a number of hack drivers
under surveillance as the result of the
"tip'* from the mysterious correspondent
The officers declare they have evidence
showing that a hack was seen coming
from the vicinity of ihe place where the
body was discovered and on the same
morning of the murder.
WOMEN FREE MRS DECKARD.
The protests of club women are re
sponsible for the release of Mrs. Deck
ard. who was in jail en a charge of rob-
bing a wealthy oil operator of $40. The
young woman, who fs unusually hand-
some. Is suffering from lung trouble and
her detention in the Jail cell aroused the
.indignation of women callers to such an
extent that a delegation called on the
Building Wholly or Partially Dc
stroyed, Orchards Stripped of
Their Fruit and Live Stock
Killed by Lightning—Some Re-
sults of Visitation.
Approximately 925,000 damage to crops,
stock and buildings is the estimated re-
sult of the storm of Thursday evening.
It was not until yesterday afternoon
that the full extent of the damage could
learned when the returns stated that
several head of stock had been killed by
lightning, orchards completely stripped of
their fruit, and buildings of all descrip-
tions partly or totally destroyed.
iveral Guthrie residents suffered at
the hands of the storm. The glass front
■f the Brown Dry Goods store was pj
ly shattered, the O. K. Meat Market
uffered the loss of windows. E.
Hirschl lost a barn four miles souheast
of the city, the orchard of Charlie Rot
terman, living east of the city, was shorn
of Its fruit. Edgar Longstreet, a fctr
living northeast of Guthrie, lost two
horses and one mule from lightning,
whole whole townships In the eastern
and southeastern parts of the county re-
port their entire dominion a TTJtal loss in
regard to crops.
Yesterday afternoon a threatening
cloud, gathering with blackness as It
descended upon the elty, gave evidences
of another severe rtorm, hut with the
exceptions of a race of rain nothing fur-
ther developed.
Tho F. O. Lutjj store was a real suf-
ferer from the storm The entire back
end was open, and notwithstanding the
army of assistants who worked like
beavers removing the goods, still much of
the higher class of goods were Injured.
The dashing rain played havoc with the
SHAKES SKIRT
PIN SHOT INTO EYE.
Feculiar Accident Happens to
Mrs. Wallace Kittel While Rid-
ding Clothing of Dust Accumu-
lated While Returning Home
From a Visit to Her Niece.
ASBURY PARK. July 16.—Through a
peculiar accident Mrs. Wallace Kittel of
Glendola, has lost the sight of her right
eye.
Returning hom from a visit to a niece
in Mlllville, she found her skirt very
dusty and started 10 shake It. Sudden-
ly there was a piercing pafn in her eye,
and reaching up quickly she pulled out a
pin that was deeply embedded In the pu-
pil. The pin did not come out easily,
but when it did a quantity of water like
fluid poured forth in her hand. The p!n
had boen shot from the skirt.
Suffering great pain and unable to see
witli the injured eye. Mrs. Kittel was
hurried to an eye specialist In Long
Branch, but he gave here no hope of
ever seeing with the eye again. The
physician said that had she pressed a
finger over *the wound to retain the fluid
partial sight would have been saved.
NEGROES TO LIBERIA ? '
OKLAHOMA CITY. July 16— Jacob
Gehring, 45, proprietor of the Waldorf
rooming house, 31t> 1-2 North Broadway,
this city, shot and killed himself In me
Marquette hotel, St. Louis, at 12:30
o'clock yesterday morning. He lert a
note to the hotel management In which
he apologised for the annoyance that Uis
suicide4 w mid occasion, but explained
that iie had no other place to go.
A second note said that E. A. Ringold,
Oklahoma City, owes him money. Paper*
found on the body show that Gehring
banked with the Western National bank,
where he Is believed to have between
$1,000 and $.'.000 on deposTT.
USED UNIQUE METHOD
The method employed by Gehring In
killing himself was unique. He fastened
a iong piece of wood under the barrel of
a revolver, bote red the end of the stick,
placed the notch over the bridge of his
nose, so that it would be impossible to
miss his aim, and pulled the trigger.
Friends In Oklahoma City, who were
pprised of the suicide, u e unable to as-
ign a motive. They believe, however,
hat Gehring was married at one time
and that his wife and himself separated.
Ic came to Oklahoma City about a year
go and bought the Waldorf. He has
lone a prosperous business, apparently,
but seemed to be despondent.
EXPECTED HOME SOON.
. A. Ringold, to whom reference was
made In one of the notes, has roomed at
the Woldorf during the time tliat Gehring
lias been its proprietor.
"Gehring left Oklanoma City last
Tuesday." said Ringold. "He said that
would return Sunday or Monday. He
did not tell me the nature ot the busi-
ness that took him to St. Louis, but he
has made several trips there this y
MODERN HOTEL TO OCCUPY
SITE OF FORT WORTH'S
MOST NOTED BUILDING.
WAS RESORT OF BAD MEN
More Than One Tragedy Com-
mitted Within Its Walls, One
of Which Was the Murder of
Dock Carver, for Whose Killing
No One Was Ever Punished.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2. COLUMN 5. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN S.
Stillwater Man in Kansas City
With Colonization Scheme.
KANSAS CITY. Mo.. July 16. —N. B
Easton of Stillwater. Okla., who is here
in the interest of tho Abraham Lincoln
African Aid and Colonization society of
which he Is chairman, says conditions
surrounding the negro arc unendurable
and thai the leading men of the country
assure their op-operation In the scheme
to send the negroea to Llbrla.
MARY BAKER GLOVER EDDY.
Row, New Hampshire, was the place
an.l July 16. 1S21, the date of the birth
of a girl infant who lias destined to be-
come one of the most remarkable women
of her age Christian Scientists will know
that this statement refers to Mary Baker
Glover Eddy, and those not of the elect
will yet be forced to admit that a woman
who has built up such an international
01 Kanlasation of devoted followers must
b«- possessed of common ability
Mrs Eddy who was 8* years ol age yes-
lerday is said by her Intimates to be In
food health and spirits and to have lost
none of her intellectual ability This
ftstement. however, must be tnken on
fulfil us tlv great leader of the Christian
fleienee church Is now almost n recluse
>nd steadfastly refuses all Interviewers
Recently number of newspaper reporters
were permitted to see her at a distance
but no conversation with the aged woman
was allowed. There have been numerous
reports of late that Mrs F.ddy is physl-
r.'liv and mentally 111, an.l it h.is
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Contest.
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$175.00 Rubber Tired Buggy or $125.00 in c.ish or a handsome gold watch worth $85.00, cut out
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subscriptions whether new or old. Address Contest Manager,
STATE CAPITAL COMPANY,
skcl
look aft.
house during his absence an I ?
he was needed he could be
3231 Locust street, Rt. Louis.
WAS ECCENTRIC.
id tlAt if
ached at
"He
entr
3d.
inclined to be irrational. 1 pro'jahly wub
closer to him than any man in town,
yet he never discussed his personal af-
fairs with me. If he had troubles, he
kept them to himself. His business
life, to all appearances, was the only
life he had. He dovoted Mraso closely
to It, sought no outside pleasures, and
had money.
"Nobory ever Knew why he took
many trips to St. Lout* during the last
few months. He simply said ihat busi-
ness called him aw*y"
CORNERSTONE LAID.
El Reno to Have One of the Best
Lodge Buildings in State.
WESTERN LEAGUE
Wichita 2. Lincoln fi.
Toppka 1. Sioux City S.
Pueblo 5, Omaha 11.
Denver 0. pes Moines 3.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
New York 1, Chicago 3.
Washington 0, Detroit 0 (13 innings.)
Philadelphia 3. Cleveland tf.
Boston 2, St. Louis 1.
TEXAS LEAGUE.
Shreveport 1, Oklahoma City :
Waco 1, Houston 4.
San Antonio 7, Galveston 3.
Dallas 2, Fort Worth 3.
NATIONAL LEAGUli.
Mnclnnati 1, New York 2.
Pittsburg-Hrooklyn, rain.
\
Chi<
4, Bo
AMFRICAN ASSOCIATION.
Toledo 1, Columbus 2.
Indianapolis 1, Louisville 3.
Milwaukee 3, Kansas City 4.
Minneapolis 5, St. Paul 1.
F#RT WORTH, Texas. July 16.—The
l<l Palais Royal building, the floors of
. iiich were stained by the blood of mora
inn one man, located «n the west side
i Main -u< < between Third ami
Fourth. Is bring razed to mar e room
for the modern hotel to be erected on
the site «"t th« old Delaware*
The Palais Royal building was erected
in 18SS by the late Hdye Jennings and
when it was completed was regarded as
one of the finest business houses In Fort
Worth. The lower floor has been occu-
pied as a saloon ever since the building
was completed, and in 18S8. the year of
Its completion, there was Installed on
the second floor tho most palatial gamb-
ling room in Texas, and the gambling
business was conducted there until laws
wcv ena -ted tli.it closed gambling in the
NfcTED CRIMINAL CASE.
aa in this bunding that was enact-
tragedy that for a time was talked
over Texas and for which no man
>ver punished. It was a light be-
i two gamblers, well known in
Te
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2, COLUMN 9.
Murder or a Suicide
EL RENO
van lead hei
venlng
of the
of th«
iddrei
M Fur man o
The Knight
Oklahoma CI
After the ex«
a banquet to
Judge Henry
ide
plar rommax
e over In a body
the local lodgo gav
Itors. II was serve<
by the Order of Eastern Star.
Tho new temple, when completed, will
he three stories high, and will be one ot
the most convenient lodge building* In
th« State The corner stone is of Okla-
homa granite.
WOMAN SLAPS BURGLAR
ST. LOUIS, Mo July 16.—When she
awoke In the night and saw a burglar
approaching her bed with knife in his
hand Mrs Albert Rexford of this city
Jumped out of bed and struck the man
• •
WTJfiT POINT, N. Y . July !«•-*
"When the court of inquiry which has
been called by Secretary of tho Navy
flScyer to meet on July 19 to Investigate
the circumstances of the tragic death of
my son has heard the sworn testimony
of witnesses whom I shall offer the
whole world will know thai my boy did
not take his own life, but that ho was
th«* vlcltm of a brutal murder. '
This statement as made by Mrs James
N. button, of Portland, Oregon, who foi
tenant Jai ^
it 1 mm'' officers! was
'• My1 son uhs ml
mint. * Mrs Mutton
vag not one drop «■
ila veins Determh
f the stigma wlii<
the hoard of Inv
ned In AnpapoVU
ssth of h
itton, of
Lien-
Marina
in i ha
while he, with
nlng
>«•
hei tin angel nor a.
;ontinned, "but tlu re
a coward's blood in
r*d to clear his name
n wan placed on It
stigatlon which eon-
a few hours after
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