The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 109, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 2, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME XXI.
THURSDAY MORNING,
GUTHRIE. OKLAHOMA, SEPTEMBER 2 1909 - EIGHT PAGES
THURSDAY MORNING,
NUMBER 109.
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MEN WHO STARTLED THE WORLD BY THEIR CONTROL OF HEAVIER THAN AIR
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GRAFT GHOST
NORTH POLE IS
REACHED AT LAST
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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OF-
FICE TO HANDLE WOOD-
WARD CO SUITS
CHICAGO'S HOUSEKEEPING
EXPENSES FOR ONE YEAR
$29,240, 504.
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CAU.3S SOME
CASES THE
LIQUOR
AMERICAN
PROBE
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Dismissed Booze Sellers With
$50 Fines on Motion of Prose
Willett
cuing Attorney
Jail Sentence.
JEWELL AND TURNER FREE
RIDDLE FIGHTING, RETURN;
Aeronmils who startled the scientific world by tlirir remarkable
flights at Rhcims arc sbown in the above pliotoucrnph. There is
lilcnn II. Curtiss. the America!), who won the international avia-
tion cup, photograph of the machine with which he won the prize.
Above are also shown a portrait of Louis Bleriot, Mr. ('urtiss' near-*
•st. coni| editor; llenrv Karman, winner of the Grand Prix de la
Champanpe, and Courtland Field Bishop, president of the Areo
SO STATES A TELEGRAM RE
CEIVED FROM FREDER-
ICK COOK.
Officials of the Brussels Observa
tory Vouch for the Authentici-
ty of the Information—Discov-
erer Returning to Copen-
hagen.
BRUSSELS, Sept. 1 —Cook reaches
ihe north pule. The observatory here
received the following telegram dated
Lerwick, Shetland Islands:
"Reached north pole April :'l, 190°..
Discovered land far nortn. Return to
Copenhagen by steamer Hans Egede."
Signed: "FREDERICK COOK."
The American officiate at tUI observa-
tory state the dispatch is purely au-
thentic and that the north pole has been
reached for the first time, and by an
American.
I ISCOVERY OF POLE
LURES SCIENTISTS
FOR MANY CENTURIES.
The dreain ot' finding the north pol
l«s for centuries lured explorers, scien-
tists and daring adventurers. Whether
this dream has become a reality* by ti
achievement of Dr. Frederick A. Coo
of Brooklyn rests thus far upon the re-
ports cabled from Copenhagen.N appa"-
ently through an official source.
Ihe same time, Dr. Cook cables n la-
conic message from Lerwick, Shetland
Islands, whence he Is proceeding to Co-
penhagen, saying-
"Suc.-cssful. Well. Address Copen-
hagen."
REPORTS AROUSE HOPES.
The hopes aroused by the reports from
Copenhagen are to some extent quali-
fied by Dr. Cook's message While he
Cays li' has been '•successful." there is
rio specific mention of having reached
the pole, and those of a skeptical turn
ure disposed to think that an achieve-
ment of such momentous nature would
not have been omitted by Dr. Cook if
tils sucoess "had been thus complete. On
the other hand. the Copenhagen d '*-
t*atches aTe apparently definite that Dr.
Cook reached the coveted goal of the
pole.
Several days must now elapse before
liny further information i* avallab:
The Danish government steamer IIans
S5gede has left Lerwick. Shetland Islands
bound tor Copenhagen where sic- is duo
tiefct Saturday.
Some of the most recent or noteworthy
Attempts to reach the north pole are
enumerated below:
MORE RECENT ATTEMPTS.
Walter Wellman. an American, left the
Island of Spitzberpen for tli po'e in a
balloon, August 1". 1900. His nlrsbip
became disabled after he had travel->d
thirty miles and he was forced to re-
turn.
In 190*1 Commander Robert V. .Feary,
V S. N.. reached degrees. € minute--,
equivalent to abOUt >03 mllSS from the
pole. Commander Peary is Mv in the
polar regions on Mother expedition. A
relief ship was s.-nt out a month ago
to endeavor to pick him up. Ho started
from Pvdney N. S. .Tuly 17. 1J*W.
Or September ?. 1M5, Captain Ronald
Affiunds'n. n Norwegian, completed the
first voyage thr« '"rh the northwest pns-
iipkc Tie left Chrlsttanli on tb Olon
Jure 17 1W, and arrived at Herschel
Talk Presented a Farmidable One.
Public Safety Corrals Largest
Expenditure Detective Bu-
reau Makes 5,202 Arrests Fire
Runs 10.811.
CHICAGO, Sept. 1.—Housekeepln
expenses of $29,240,504 for a singl
twelve months, the grand total that
Chicago spent last year for civic main
tenance—gross bills and pin money—
has so sadly weaked the pockets and
penurious bumps of the city fathers
that the committee of eleven newly ap
pointed for the probing of city expen
ses and thorough investigation o
every penny that was municipally dis
bursed during 1908 finds itself facing
task far more formidable than tho
mere checking up of an Easter bon-
net bill or an invoice of importation
for Parisian lingerie.
The ghost of graft sports a shifting
smirking shadow among the musty
files and stacked-up receipts. "Public
safety" in 190S corralled the largest
expenditure of all, $10,525,297.11,
which $5,704,012.40 was passed out in
the police department, which has
its credit 68,220 arrests, ot which 4
were held to the grand jury
Juvenile court, and 26,292 were fined
with a resulting total of $384,518 and
556 fugitives were sent back to other
cities while 289 were deported, offi-
cers injured, numbered 856 and 48
policemen died, of whom two \
killed.
The detective bureau made 5,202 ar-
rests, the fined among whom were
515, held to the criminal court
and sent to the penitentiary, 93. The
Mounted Squad" -six-foot cavalry
dandies—cared for 169 accident ct
and stolen property amounting
$322,245 was recovered, an amount
double in value ot all previous record*
and a pace that the new Chief
Police Leroy Steward will find 'much
ado to equal.
The fire department appropriation
of $2,9J7.106 69 w;is another tu tor in
swelling the public safety column. This
department In 1008 answer^ 10,811
alarms from 1,897 boxes in the city's
total area of 190,638 square miles, of
which 7.7,.>,f were fires involving
property valued ai $114,527,300, i^and
a loss of $3,S73,4#4. an excess of
000 over the preceding year.
STATE HIGHWAY
LINCOLN COUNTY TO BE HUB
OF PROPOSED IMPROVE-
MENT.
ROUTES LAID OUT
It Is Charged J'adgc 0 Bryan Work Now in Prospect w'oukl
Mean the Issuance of From $3,-
OOO.COO to $4,000,000 in Bonda.
Petrolythic Process Favored.
President Yoakum's Plan.
Governor Haskell Revokes Parol
Because Former Prisoner En-
gages in Bootlegging Business.
Habeas Corpus to Test Gover-
nor's Power in Matter.
Will ni.Mle
y Governor
leged to hav
after his rel
tuted habeas
district cour
his return t
parole
roked
groi
IR that
run
•ed Nm
months ago.
Oliver Boyle
parole was r
brated his roi
and shooting
considerable i
no
granec
I A T ION.
AMI
Former Was Green -County Boyj
Who Came Here From Illinois
and Wanted to Be a Desperado.
Has Taught Prison School.
Turner in for Manslaughter.
AEROPLANISTS INVITED
MEXICO CITY, Sept 1.—Tim com-
mittee in charge of the centenary
celebration here in September, 1910,
have decided to invite the aeroplanists
of the world to hold the international
meet ^t Mexico < 'ity. Prizes
ing between $50,000 and $100,000 will
be offered. The Wright brothers, Ble-
riot, Curtiss, Latham and other lead-
NORMAL OPENS SEPT. 14.
EDMOND, Oltla., Sept. 1 With
prospects of one of the most success-
ful years In the history of the nor-
mal, the Central State Normal, ot Ed-
mond. will open on September 14 A
number of improvements have been
made on the buildings and grounds at
a cost of nearly $1,500, and everything
is no\\# in shape t<- lend to th. comfort
of the pupils'.
A number of the members of the
faculty have already atrlved, a3 have
a number of pupils. A great effort
has been put forth by President J. A.
McLaughlin in the interest of the in-
stitution. The faculty for this season
comprises some of the best educators
having been selected from tho best
colleges throughout the country.
BANK FOR AN OIL TOWN.
•Bank Commissioner A. M. Young has
approved the organization a $1". 00
bank at Alluv.ee, an oil town In the
AMERICAN LEAGUE
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
TEXA* LEAGUE
BUDAT® ST CHOSEN
FOR THE 1911 MEETING
Trades Union Congress Favors the
Organization of Interna-
tional Federation.
'ARIS. Sept. 1.—Samuel Qompers,
Hurd In Woodward
osal fo
tin
lal feu
vith the I
resolution
be discussed becai
atlon of Jfebor is"
European, union*; I
of the same Import
adjourned tc
Mr. Gomper
dieted on strong
('HANDLER*
tate highway-
inaugurated here
president of the
cf ('.handler, recc
county voting $2
ment bonds, sufficient
thirty and forty
)kla., Sept. 1.—Ai
• in north to south
and .from east to west, with lateral
county roads tapping the main thor-
oughfare from all directions, is a pos-
sibility, with Lincoln county ^ the
hub. The movement for better roads
by H. M. Johnson.
First National Bank
ntly resulted in the
10.000 in road im-
to finish be-
miles.
n ot.tv.
ryan It is planned to begin on the west*
jmli-'^rn county lihe, near Wellston, work
i' 4;,01 east through Warwick, Chandler,
I rely I Davenport and Stroud to the Creek
hlbi-1 Count] line the survey for which
it he! marks thirty-three miles, oklahoma
nvict j County, on the west, has been invest!-
iting t
miing
oject with
the w
lounty
tin
f the I northeast through the,
still touching Depew. Brlst
I Sapulpa and Taiuha.
\ ii
spec- the problem 01 .1 nor
e will count\ road through Bt
| ka, Ochelata,. Ramona
tuoted the southern county
can be Induced
• klahoma City,
iloners, «>n the
improvement
jurisdiction,
. Kellyville,
in the north
with
south
Mato
: (Ik
n and
Tulsa
n the
CONTINUED ON PAGE
1 j:
COLUMN 7. CONTINUED ON PAG£ COLUMN 5.
The Conte3t is Drawing to a Close
DESTROYED BY STORM.
HEAD RIOTER NEBBED.
BARCELONIA, Sept. 1. Senor Fe
he m.-in who Is accused of being
ers in the science of aviation will, b > ( penslble for tin r. i -ii' ri";ing in this
CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 COLUMN D^usked to take part,
I city, has been arrested.
AIRSHIP INVENTOR DEAD.
NEW
naud, t
)RLEANS, Sept. 1—Louis Ray
e inventor of an airship which
lave been given Its initial fllgh
Sunday, was killed tonight. He was re
turning home In a^ wagon from a day'i
work on the aeroplane when he wai
struck by a passenger train at a cross
ing.
W ASH I NCH
consul
graphe.
trance lights
i probably
storm on the
rth jetty
: h«? harbc
ment that
and both ei
EARS FLAGS FROM PARK
WASHINGTON, Sept. As :i re-
sult of an order Issued by the Inter-
ior department here today no more Con*
federate flags will bo permitted in the
Piatt National rark at Sulphur. Tne
department declares that the rivalry
tween military organisations for the
of the park has caused the position taken
I / Luc department.
themseh
DISTRICT NO. 2.
TTattie Lay, Chandler 5015
Bulah Thompson, Spar. s..^ 9C.905
Cora Iii.yes, Cleveland, 8,560
Nettie Ward, Wagoner . . 1005
Miss Florence Benedict ^Muskogee 1400
Miss Ethel Simmons, Pawhuska.. 27SO
J. II. Jones, Perkins — 1005 -
Mr. Burnett Crawford. Sapulpa ... 8595
DISTRICT NO. 3.
arl
ota 1
>r,i
along the
Subserib
long time
ind gi
an
our fa
st eas
ou have done your part.
THE STANDING
DISTRICT NO. 1.
Smith. Guthrie,..111,185
es helj. Miss Oma Hill, Holdenville, ..6,800
|Paul Rowe, Hartshorne,. 34,085
for a J DISTRICT NO. 4.
..rite thej'Ailfls Kate Ross. Okla. City .. $230
id feci Miss Lulu Daniel, Ardmore 3865
Miss Hanna Rob^rson, Davis 1925
W. L. Meyers, Norman 1703
Miss Jennie Tyler, Purcell. 1273
Miss Mabel (iibbs. Anadarko. .15,300
Mrs. Julia G. Campbell. Pauls
Valle
Miss Kathlee
Miss Ethel Lawrence, Crescent
y,. . Bertha Ferrier. < i thri. 1" 1
Miss Blanche Stevens, Guthrie, 212,030
Miss Alice H. Watkins, Guthrie . 1005
Miss Dorthy Branliam, Guthrie 1000 Miss Lena Butts, Cherokee
Miss Maud Brisendine. Guthrie, 109,710 Miss Ethel Fry, Watonga
Miss Mabel Billings, Guthrie,....317,440 Miss Ililda Davis, Newkirk
DISTRICT NO. 5.
Miss Abbey Ramsey, Perry, .
Miss Lea French, Ponea City..
Miss Daisy Fulwiler, Enid.
.92,245
.15,095
14,900
... 1000
... 2ii
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