The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 190, Ed. 2 Sunday, December 5, 1909 Page: 1 of 12
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VOLUME XXI.
ECNbAi MOi.-
UUiHKIE, OKi^AhOiViA, niCEMEER 5, 1909. PAGES ONE 10 TWELVE
t-UiNDAY lVIOKlNi.
NUMBER 189.
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18 BE VERIFIED
NORTH POLE RECOilPS WILL
REACH COPENHAGEN
TUESDAY.
CONTAINS 30,000 WORDS
Earril), Who Made Sensational
Mount McKiiiley Affidavits,
Said to Have Been After Monoy
From Both Sides to Controver-
sy—Records Complete.
Sees Danger in Canadian Navy
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TOR< >XTO
either the m
COPENHAGEN, Dec. ' —With the ar-
rival Tuesday of the north pole records
of Dr. Frederick a. Cook, no time will
be ;ost by the University of Copenhagen
Y'ientlsts in deciding his claims The
Committee for the consideration of the
rt'ords has beta organized, with Prof.
)"lis Stromgren, director of the Astnno.
u i il Observatory, as the • lirraai
Waiter Lonsdale, secretary to Dr. Cook.
was ustodian of the records ot. the
t• ip across tlie Atlantic, and look'o .<rt ;-
ti * :ri as carefully as If they ! .1 be«
jewels of untold value.
Dr. Cook's report, as has beer, ib lan-d
is a voluminous document «.< tni: i j
80,000 words. Mr. Lonsdale said that
the documents are in complex form and
ready for the scientific scrutiny. The re.
port and the records were under look
snd key In tiie strong room of the strain-
er while she was at sea. The* ..<retary
expects that the Co|> nhagen university
authorities will make pub ic their opinion t),c pouf.y 0f a war navy, upon whi. h the
wf the, records by the first of the year. Dominion government seeios to be eni-
There have been rumors in circulation barking are voiced by Professor Gold win
that tlu* Cook records are not in pos- gmith, Canada's foremost publt ■>st, whoso
session ol Mr. Lonsdale, and that thej laying aside of the pen at ti ig of
were sent on another hi< ' • . bee i se ^ eighty-seven marks the "ad of an er " h
ef an fiHeged plot hatched by Cook's ene-
mies to secure and destroy them. No
credence Is placed in this report, and it
Is gent ••ally believed here that the
records are In the hands of Dr. Cook's
secretary.
Closest to Prince Regent
EX-SPEAKER WILI TRY FOP.
GOVERNOR BUT FRIENDS
MUST PAY
USES GOV'S MONEY PLAN
Remarkable Statement Issued by
Man Who is After C. N. H. and
Others—Will Ask Democrats to
Furnish Mo ey With Which to
Get Office—Give Not Loan
Sun with
candidates hav
rr, 1 Kith nfl"'6 notnl.: .|..p
,v, Vila! r — on
DR. COOK'S COUNSEL TALKS.
NEW VOKK, Dec. i.—According to
>r. Cook's counsel, the records sent to
Copenhagen with 30,000 words «of ex-
I'anatcry comment comprise only the, 11 ''"'k P
in Canadian Journalism.
Unaffected by parties and
n trammeled
view that h
dian affairs. Tlie Sun out Its circulation
In half by opposing the 1! >er *var, but it
stood to its prlnclpYs and is doing the
same now against that portion of the
press of Lower Can i.la wnlc'n is favor-
able to the naval movement.
Okla., Dee. 4.—Since
made announcements for
for gover-
lst Tm-sday
r represent-
Wm. II Mur-
nt of the con.
io has been
prob-
Girl Rescued After
A Terrible Awal
LONDON, Dec. 4.—An exciting lnci- her.' Ropes were p aced und
esterday morning on,and she was drawn up to
d.iia of the trip to the pole. The records
of the trip back were left with the in-
struments in the care of llarry Whitney
the Loi
id North w. stern Railway .-af ; v.
Eti
near Crewe.
A young woman, aged about 20. was
seen wandering up and down the ap-
rlded the Information tl^it 'Ivnr'1 to tho u,„l, .■ round tunn.-l on
the Liverpool lino. She was hysterical
and in great distress, and she had ap-
parently been walking in her sleep, as
she had on only her night dress.
Suddenly she was seen to run into the
tunnel A young man on thd bank let
himself down with a rope and pursued
To this
!:• addition to the records and explana-
tory matter Dr. Cook sent to Copen-
h, gen fifteen or more affidavits about
t Mount M< Kinky cltmb. Agents < f
the explorer obtained these affidavits
last October In Mcntana. One of them
Is from a resident of Tacoma, who swore
that BarrM!, the guide, offered on Oct. 1.
t ) make aft'idi t that he and Dr. Cook.
1 ad I t en to the top of Mount McKlnley.
Two days after this Barrill made his
., if Ida \ it sating that Cook did not climb
to the lop of McKlnley.
There Is another affidavit found. A
lawyer of Tacoma stated that a bank
clerk of that city told him that Ttarrill
had spoken of getting $: 00 to make
affidavit against Cook. This bank clerk,
when approached by Cook's agents, re-
fi;?«d to make such an affidavit. Ot!i*r
sf;' lav its that Dr. Cook has sent to the
Copenhagen savants an1 from old neigh-
bcrs of RarrtH'a in Darby, Mont., who
f.ivs thai Barrill often told them that he
nn(i Cook had scaled Mount McKlnley
1)1. Cook was not asked by the Danish
scientist!® to send any proof of the Mount
Mi Kini-'y climb. It was explained by his
Jcgal representatives tliat he was so
eeplv concerned over the attacks r.n hisl^.^j, j jr
/eracity that he had decided to ship tn
Date or affidavits anyway. [volunteer
*,n' J hi i t lit v. had on
ABDUCT mm
Tnelr
I Maurice
PLACED IN PRIVATE ASYLUM ntanded
Had it not been for the timely rescue
she must have been knocked down and
run over by an express which passed a
moment later.
It appears that she resides in a bouse
on the railway embankment. A bedroom
window was found opened, and It is
posed that she got up in her sleep
in Aumwt, IMO. a conimltt
ing the friends of the 11 <>; >. 1
ray (Alfalfa Bill), presi
stitutlonal '"onvention,
spoken of for twelve ni
able • andldate, approached him tn
dinnlt.iy whether he would make iin,
race, and promising to render any as-
sistance within their power as feltou
citizens and friend an.
reside,! fur lma eommt.
T-*e was composed of II. L. Muldrow,
B. R. Brundage and G. \V. Dud!, y
To their question Mr. Murray, jn* part,
made the following reply;
LIKE ALL "andi dates.
"Aa you and other friends well
know the financial condition in which
the two years of political life as a
member and president of the consti-
tutional conventim and as member
and speaker of the hou-e of represen-
tatives left me several thou and dol-
lar- in debt, upon which I have con-
tinual;/ paid high rates of interest.
Moreover, 1 find that at the end of
a. paw*
! if'
1 'fr
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zm
m'r I
f ::
-"3
i>. - "fry • ,
SMOOTH CONFIDENCE GAM3
BY USE OF TELE.
GRAMS.
OFFICIALS ARE SUSPICIOUS
TAX HIJNG 7 ZVI
PI'KIN", Dec. , - The
ong whom he has jCounclllor,
Mother Who Caused Husband j ,
Confinement in Mad House Cap j
tures Son and in He Goes
Strange Action Permitted in
Budapest.
• mH ies, ms chief office*
f Instruction, Sub
i ud Secretariat, Senior
? of the hoard of punish-
•eesor to t,; late Chang 'n.euts. Jul <■ r vice president of the board
antoncse, and of reremr1 : . president of the board
ft'i n< I'-ly thirty year- of laws, member of tho government
' ' "n "I active of!! la| his <-hief disilnc run. i'. lie w is a member of the fa-
tlon lien in his eminent literary ability n.ous comml ion ^hlch went abroad In
is of the Mriati. as was Chang Chin if"-'., when hi? visited America and Bu-
I'ung. Tal IIuiik Tzu ha* served
VI i:\NA. p.-1
ommerriai ,1
ippvarb unable tt
i.-ive account of her
•.>?its of rny fi
the Indehtednt
pledged, and ti
ni'd of. and n
u o b. gan by kiss
h lhey could not
did not re-pond.
it of
ground iliat
1 to ha, • kissed th
the kls-inir and that
on the part of if<
JOKE THAT COST A LII il.
THE SIEGE OF STREATHAM.
Unfortunate Man Had But Little
Knowledge ol English
Police Kept at Eay With a
Revolver
more than i
a lied by that ofi
I have been compelled either
In attt parts
ntrlb
t wpewriter t i
1 —Jules Boulet lost h
int Jacaues in t
of this morning in coi
feet acquaintanct
with tlie English languag
lie was return!
party ot' young
I'Ang'ias" an Inn
mciit wuicn constats in taikii
in ail unknown language with
ngling of
lion 1 i, who was appar< i ly in
frame of mind, thought I
me better, ana accost:nj-. tr.e party
them In brOKen Flu: ,i that
I'ARI
I.ONI
tempt to
liabrol involv
kltsing
by letters and j
tation 11•«>m friends in otl
DE-iTOR OF A KING
MYSTERIOUS INQUIRIES.
Eoy Ruler tins to Pay $20,000 Search :n Paris for Russians
i nub.
io li\
E DS THE MONEY
nlcati
lr knowledge
Pound
Staying 111 the City.
PARIS, h 4. —The ' Petite Repub-
that mysterl
S at hoiets in tne &ti>.
i e lt
g '
IV thtae pr-
: :
proj
I down he is iin
to dist
Inq'iBuive per
far less l-Jngli.-di
Jhout
io liq idat. his f;
moved
with a
a ponce def
ijcum
l lnterfe
by ti
BAN ON LONG HATPINS
.('olios Compelled to I;.ue Most
Unusual- Ordei
v passaKf'.'J. hi id
EXCESSIVE EXERCISE
HKilLIN
Proclamati
i tliat
i -1 •
f the al
ported
tin: out of a tn
fell on
irg. At
unir lad
heavll)
y tragic - -4 ii>e ! in the
Arrangements Made to Capture
Men Who Became Suspicious
Owing to Delayed Payment of
Money—Police Are Anxiously
Making- Search on Continent.
LONDON D> 4 Vn attempt to de-«
fraud the London branch of tho gwiss
Bankverein and two other London
banks c.r 87,000 pounds failed, owing to
' ! =• proved well found*
«'(i) of the bank t Tlclais as to the gen-
uineness ..f the instruetiona to pay the
1 he facts of the case show a remark-
resemblance t> other cases of fraud
which have recently occupied the at-
tent It'ii of the courts. The three banks
ni question each received, on the samo
morning a cablegram, In the banc
cipher, properly aut .ntlcatcd by secret
' ' de words, directing them to pay to
a certain man m« tloned, whose address
w us jiivcii ui a Bloomsbury hotel, tho
Mini ef 20,000 poun's, and to charge
th* senders of the cablegram a bank la
South America, with that amount.
The individual referred to -who is de-
s. rib'd as being of powerful build, broad
shouldei ed about thirty-five years of
age, height 511. llln., little black mous-
ta. he, swarthy, wearing cropped blacM
I'.'ir, speaking Fr* nch fluently, wearing at
frock toat and top hat. and at times
pince-nez - presented himself at each ot
the three banks In sucesslon to draw,
the three sums of 29,000 pounds.
FRAUD IS EXPOSED.
The bank officials, having in view ths
huge sum Involved, took upon them*
stives to defer the payment until fur*
th, r Instructions h.ul been received, an<l
made an appointment for another day*
The Inquiries at th-} South American!
bank revealed tho fact that the instruc-
tions to pay the money had been sent
by an accomplice, who had formerly
been In the employ of the bank.
i e matter hag been placed In thtf
hands of Messrs. Michael Abrahams,
Sons, Co., solicitors, of the city, and
of the city police. Inquiri s at th«
Bloomsbury hotel showed that the man
v, ho . lie 1 for the monev at the banks
•i• I l.e. n ass.. ..-ited with another man
w > is described as a German, twenty*
\ years of age, ,i. 6in., in height, fall
. . i:. i n m .. , slight squint*
light .i v iring a light groj
t It and P i hat Shortly befors
! • v t t" tho tiire banks the two
men had pin ed n'l their iungage In s
motor cab. In which vehicle the round
of the nanks was made.
N<, : i to £.ay, the app Intment madi
by the banks for a second call has not
i ecn kepi it .I i • po ice are anxiously
looking for both men.
JOHNSON FAMILY
TO LIVE IN CHICAGO.
Colored Champion Has Purchased
Home for 1 hem in Windy
City.
< 1A T.V KSTON. Tt-Xiis. Dfln. 1 —Jac*
Johnson's mother and members of his
family have departed for Chicago ta
intake their Inture home with the cham-
pion in the property he recently pur«
chased with his winnings In big rln^
Johnson was bom here and for year*
.it el Galveston as Ms home.
VIENNA, Dec. 4.—Count Karl Zay has
Of en seized by force at. Budapest, at tho
Instigation of his mother, and taken to
i private lunatic asylum.
Some years ago she confined her hus-
aand in an asylum, and since then Count
Karl has been estrai * d from his moth-
n and has lived at Qer.eva. |)V h;ive not - i'\ b« u .4 nulsanc.-1 f.
lie determined to obtain his father's |but . iso a ive .lanu-t to otl.or p '
•elense by legn' means If possible, but !:< ns> v*iio hav; • «i • 1 in.i ui- s
'ailing those he was prepared to uso j "Notice ii. <. :;iv> n t; ;.t t • • v
' Me came to I'.u.-lap*a fe<v .I ,\ ■*<. - ,, v
:o put his plans Into operation, and ,,, , ,,
eok rooms under an assumed name Mia articl
not her, how v - h«-.ird ., arrival, ,, • ,,ther , . • <r
*11.! : I ■ ■: oh' 't e.l . ! !< .' • ! . , i , , i j . t • . • • ' U
fioi i tlu. . ourt. sent iu ^ i r. t. ,, ,r
lives to hh hotel, ' j;re also liable t ! : • atlon or in ti* ■: Ex i.-ou *n a ."•••tor, to f * i •* t. • *•' 1 1
They found the count In bed and car-J any damage InfUpted by their ffiitplns. showed that he had been^uff >cated by s Ing, with the result that she had been |
r|e i him eff to t'*e .. • in' qjh pro- I '• ir, i >' i ,• -•*•••. t "f t
prletor declares thai Count Karl is per - ' pclvo^ it Is therefore r«<* mmeiicied ' wind; 1; i:\l.l-nt'h Hr:• 1 J A r. ;-o of i 11 i a t wn in Wnrtei
fe/tly san*. and says that unless lie is ^cesslvelv large hatpin e. haipm i*'iy pin in the d r, and litUi h"i ■ I • l.i ■ y
taken away by his famllv lie will dls-1 whose points are not sheathed, siiull not j.i n. he hail oi t it in
him. I be worn." [A picce of broken akin down liis throat, [by an open window. A hen lkw in, and, {
the "dry" town of Tulsa ther
docket* I In police court during
• r .; ;ik
number of "drunks" not arrested
l • J, .Ipvi !t
■■It.' ' ' I $3 .1
I, . i i,,i f.-ii jt pay the running expenses of both
the polic and fire ilepartments fof
rman account as | month. It is evident Tulsa's po
.{lice department is not sleeping mor
jOONTlNL'LJJ UN X'AQl^ i'lVL, |than a thud o£ the time
if initio AGAIN
POPE REISSUES AN ORDER,
Priests Are Prohibited From At-
tendance at Moving P lcturJn
Shows as Well aa Theaters,
Rome Seems to Have ' Advano
ed Ideas.
D< hi is Is well knowij
clergy are not a!-
' . itr- their attendtnc*
entertainments was
i ardii.n \ ..r pub-
f iinong
9 to see that good habits pre-
ng tl.f ch i'u'v and to protect
Ml: 1! \i:i; ascertained thai
e.embers of t ■ regular and seculaS
■ "t.u
many of whl h offend religion and moral-
ity, w* Inform* i the Holy Father, who
authorised us to again remind the clergy
that they may not frequent theatres«
and that ar ei lsr< i
ipo to attnd kinematograph *«xhibitlons
of any kind.
"Any clergyman contravening this or«
der will be liable to canonical punish"
dint, Including suspension from ths
celebration of mass and the divine of*
flees."
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