The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 195, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 11, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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SATURDAY MORNINU
uHJ'iHRIE, OKLAHOMA, DECEMBER 11 1909 EIGHT PAUES
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THIS iS WHERE "V-LE JOE" CANNON WIELDS THE GAVEL
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01 HAD BEEN
FRESHLY FIRED
CHARGED WITH SHOOTING
TIERNAN, RAILROAD
FIREMAN.
BULLET WAS FOR OFFICER
Fired Into Crowded Hotel Lobby
From Stable Shed Across the
Street—Glass Deflected Bullet—
Tieriun Has Fighting- Chance
for His Life.
$ f>aC*
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GEKERAL VIEW i>T THE
OPXENITlSrGb, PRAVEJi.1
T-KT3tJ.SE
C K ^ 3R I* All3ST
OFFCTINl?
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An hour after E. P. Tiernan, a
railroad fireman, was shot last
night as he sat in the lobby of the
Alamo hotel Jim Poteet, an alleged
bottlegger, was placed under ar
rest, charged with the shooting,
by Chief of Police Mitchell and
Sheriff Mahoney, and after being
"sweated" by the officers, direct
ed them to his home on East
Springer, Where he produced his
gun from where it had been con-
cealed under the front porch. It
was a 44 old-style Smith ii Wesson
with a twelve inch barrel and one
load had been so recently fired
that a pungent odor of powder
filled the room when it was un-
reached. One cartridge has been
discharged and the ball it carries
corresponds with the one found.
The officers had been given a de-
scription coinciding with that of
Poteet, by a man- named Priestly,
who said that the first name of
the man who followed him was
"Jim."
Poteet first stated that he had
given his gun to his brother
George at 4 o'clock yesterday af-
ternoon, but later admitted that
thia was not true. He had been
drinking yesterday.
HASKELL TO OFFER REWARD.
Immediately aftrr Hie thootln* last
night Governor C. N. Haskell said tiiat
he would offer a reward for the appre-
hension r.f the man who fired the
bullet. He said ho would not say he
.believed the shot had boon directed at
Enforcement Officer Priestly. hut
continued on page 6, COLUMN 6
PRIZE CORN Hllil!
TEN EARS SELL FOR $335 MORE BROKAW TELEGRAMS.
IS IIGIIMl?!
ZfLM'SMEST
SENATOR RAINER PAVES
WAY FOR ACTION IN NIC
ARAGUAN MATTER.
MORE THAN 350 BILLS IN
Many Failed to Pass Last Session
and 90 Per Cent of Them to Re.
oeive Little No^.ce This Winter.
Both Houses Stand Adjourned
Until Next Week.
GEN. WEST REFUSES TO SAY FINE OF $5 000 IMPOSED YOUNG'S SCALP SOUGHT.
Samnles of Grain at Omaha Corn Mysterious Automobile Parties Attorney Geneial, However, Did Conviction Is First Under Ne/it Develops That West Demanded
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Exposition Bring Record Price3.
Topeka Publisher Pays $280 for
70 Best Ears Best Peck of
Wheat Sells for $104.
OMAHA: Pec. 10.—When Hie prize
grains wore put on sale at the National'
Corn Exposition today, fanners, publish-
and Orders to Dismantle Rooms
Five Ministers Refused to Per-
ioral Wedding Ceremony—Di
vorce Hearing Goes On.
era of agrlcultur
breeders paid high
winners than has
? for such sai
papers and plant
prices for the prize
?ver been paid' he-
lm Of Kl'a in.
ilitor of Successful
to De0 Moines th€
rn,.having paid S33S
E. K. Fa v ill
farming, takes
prize ten ears
for them. The corn was
R. Overstreet, of Franklin.
won more than $1,000. Th«
as the ''champion sweepstakes ears,' and
brought almost $100 more than th{ ten
ears last year.
Arthur Capper, oi Topeka, publisher
of the Topeka Slate ( apital, paid $-80
for the best seventy ears.
TT. E. Krugger, of Beaver Dam. Wis-
consin, who won the sweepstakes on
wheat, producing the best , eck the world
has ever seen, according to judges, paid
$ 1 of for the peek thet he might retain
it and take it back to Wisconsin for
NEW YORK, 1
the
that
M
had smoked ci
uation of the r<
telegrams to ■
on ti-
Mild Brokaw
paretics and
. suit lu-
sta ud 1110
ed.
•f 4* "£ i % i ^ *
♦ *
.f. weather. +
* *
♦. WASHINGTON, De .10—-Fore- -f
-f cast.—Oklahoma. clearing and -f
-f- colder Saturda>; Sunday fair. •>
-f Kansas; fair in western per- -f
-f- lion, snow and colder in -f-
-f- Sunday fair -f
-f Missouri; rain or snow Satur- -f
-j- day; Sunday fair. -f
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J i ^ i H- t i "T
Daring Aviator Dashed to Death
the duy.
lust before her direct examinatl
s concluded, Mrs. Brokaw told
known the visit to the house by an automo-
bile party of three men and three worn-
eli, the party being unexpectedly add-
ed to later by the arrival of another
woman, and a man. The next day.
she said, the estate manager received
a telegram from Mr. Brokaw which
read:
"Why did you not tell me there
was a fourth gentleman in the party'.'
I want you to start in right away
and 'ismantle all the rooms of my
maid's room.'* '
Mrs. Brokaw .-.aid . !.«• .! " received
telegram from her husband asking
ir the names of all the men who
lunched with h< r that day. She said
she gave them to him in a message
sages, one asking for the fourth man's
initials, and that the manager receiv-
ed another telegram from Mr. Brokaw
which read:
"Wire me tonight a description of
all the men who stopped at my house
on Sunday. Was, Mr. it my house
last Saturday. He is a large, stout
man with a blonde mustache. He is
sometimes referred to as 'Colonel' or
'Commodore.' Was Mr. there, too?
He is a medium sized man, clean
Not State That Monefee-Norton Ar.tr-Monopoly Law and Means j
Agreement was Not Criminal-- Test in Higher Courts—Ooun-
Substance of Contract Which, sel Says Marks First Step in]
Has Caused Mild Sensation.
matte
regard to the i
;ction with the dismissal of the
loiria county grand jury,, dis-
i with the newspaper corres-
.'iits, I w as correctly quoted in all
i. instance, and that misquotu-
was no doubt due to the fact that
matters were talked of at about
Company's Dissolution.
XKW YORK. Dee. 11). -Tlic
ol' Governor That He Retire
Commssioner and Assistant j"
Dis This Influence Governor in
Grand Jury Matter?
•pert
the
tim<
"I reler to the published statement
to the effect that Menefee-Norton con-
test was not criminal.
"I positively did not say that con
tract was not criminal. I made no
statement on that point."
The above statement was made yes-
terday wh< u .Attorney-General West's
attention was called to the fact that
he wa* quoted as having said "Tri"
agreement between Mr. Morton, presi
dent of the Columbia Bank and Trust
company, and James Menefee, treasur-
er of state, was not criminal."
What Mr. West said was "The agree-
ment, found, after I had received .t
copy, was not what I had Seen led to
'believe it was."
Mr. West
tion as to tin
Norton contr
ould not give
nature of the
•t. but from otl
interested
tional bar
er's Natio
lestion. Mr
jed on page
F- EJE*TvT AJSTD K,Z
rKuTO. COPYJQU1 BY THE Ntw
DA It INC
NICE,
WIATOR DASHED to
Dec. 10—Antonh
aviator, nirt death wh
aeroplane of his own
Ira
VOKJtt -*IEi2AVD OLAlX KK1HXS
lent appears to have 1
LAST OF BIG CHIEFS DIES
RED CLOUD BR.WE TO END
He and His Class Were Never
Civilized To Ride Favorite
Poney to Hunting Grounds.
WASHINGTON, Dor. 10. pi.i- lusl of
tered into was executed in Jul;
1 n ■
Norton and Mr. Menfee is that W. I,.
Norton agr«- d to carry bank stock
in four hanks in which Mr. Norton was
lamelv: The American N:.
of Bartlesville, the ] .,rni
1 bank of Tulsa, the Bank
of Mounds and the Citizen's hank)
without interest, the purchase price t<>
he paid from Menefee's half of th-
earnings of the business agreement.
right at any time, in event of loss,
t<i ret're from the agreement and Mr
second part
1 in his pow
the partner-
othing stated as
State Menefee sh
makin,? profits si
from his one-h.
of $4i.C00.
GIVEN 25 YEARS IN PEN.
Justice Meted Out to Assailant of
Little 3 Year-Old Girl.
)N, Dee.
10.—As
a prom<
• lii the
interest
of legls-
ra today
introduc
<i mora
and r
lolutions
covering
ty of sOl
tijects.'
.Many of
h failed <
f passaf
?e during
^ss and 90
per cent of them
ant consideration
this sea-
re for pe
nsions that could
d under
the general law.
as a st
rlkiiig proposition
on by St
nator R
ainer to-
ig tho pi
resident
to causa
lya to h(
• appreh
ended as
•iminal, c
harged
with the
, o A merit
ians, engaged ir*
activity 1
n Nlcargua, con-
ode of w
ar of all
civilized
would hi
i\ granted them
as in se«
ision an
hour and
large nui
rnber of
measures
.1 there.
The mi
ost strik-
f the pr«
Deeedings
; in that
speech 1
'•y Rcpr«
tentative
of Wince
•nsin dei
lying th(j
to" cans'
nan ship-
rlne. Mr
f of ti.a
. Kauster
humor
and his
ontinued on page 2. column
KING'S PLAYMATE
if ^
V H
JVYl« EE3 4D
M13S YVOMTtti
mainly due to the inexperience and reck-
lciiness of the aviator, who, impatient
at the delay and ntt heeding ti..: cx-
in ren-!pO0tulatlons of his mechanician, patch-
aerodrome near the ed up -i defective part of the machine
Big Rll
I n res
ed tonl;
might fc
tlie old chief
forefathers to
L
ristma
hour. Do
^"ou will now
itli time to wait
Co yourself and tho morohnnts a tcood turn by going after
your Christina* remembrances NOW !
KIISlHi WIFt AND lllfnSELl
AFTER READING OF CRIMES.
Oakland Man Feared Hi- Help-
mate, Who Was His Junior,
Had Mftrned Him for Money.
or, had married him for
et vac diplomats ioeiit
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Greer, Frank H. The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 195, Ed. 1 Saturday, December 11, 1909, newspaper, December 11, 1909; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc127562/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.