The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 219, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 1911 Page: 1 of 12
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SUNDAY MORNING.
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA, JANUARY 1, 1911 TWELVE PAGES
luule XXII.
SUNDAY MORNING,
HASKELL MAI PILE TWO
COMPANIES MILITIA HERE
IS
HEARING END
Has But Eight Days During
Which to Make Asinine
Moves
THREATS IS AGAINST COURT
|
No Attention Paid Attempt Spec
tacular Removal of Office
Furniture—But Governor Has
His Soldiers Ready—Menefee
Cited for Contempt in District
Court
It OKLAHOMA CITY. Dec. 31.—After
having ordered two companies of the
state militia to stand in readiness to
move to Guthrie and assist in bring-
ing the state records down to Oklaho-
ma City, Governor Haskell Saturday
night received a mesage from W. A.
Ledbetter stating that there would be
po interference on the part of Guthrie
t't'ren*. It in believed now that the
removal of the records will pass off
without serious friction.
Governor Haskell ordered out the
militia at 6:00 o'clock Saturday ev-
ening, after he received a message
stating that three wagon loads of rec-
ords had been intercepted while en
t route to the station in Guthrie for
transportation. After having issued
orders to companies A and B. of Tulsa
and Chandler, respectively, to stand In
readiness to move, Governor Haskell
stated that the records would "be mov-
ed from Guthrie if we have to whip
them to do it."
Sheriff Mahoney, of Guthrie, who is
said to have stopped the wagons carry-
ing the records, did so by instructions
f> of the district court, it is said, attor-
neys for Guthrie claiming that the or-
iginal injunction proceedings filed Juno
f 11, 1910, ordering the state officials not
4to move to Oklahoma City, still held
^their power.
f — o-
§\, The above news was received with
j Wurprise here last night, a* nobody
. I;4°1n Guthrie knew of threatened trou-
/Le blr. There were no crowds congre-
1S| pa ted on the streets; the moving of
1 |th4 furniture from the state house
I to the depot went on stosdily with
f -J. nobody taking any notiee of the opera-
k ttops except a few of the employes
at the state house who could not work
IFkeoause their typewriters and desks
■bad already been removed.
| /• Judge Iluston of the Logan county
, district court issued a citation to
■'f state Treasurer Menefee to appear
' before him for contempt of court. In
• violating his restraining order of some
r| months ago. but. the moving was not
molested and everybody seemed sat-
isfied to let the courts decide the plat-
ter.
/>11 of the furniture and books from
the offices of the commissioner of la
bor and almost everything from th
state treasurer's office has already
been placed in cars ready for ship
.ment to Oklahoma City. A portion
of the belongings of the other offiees,
j With the exception of the department
J of agriculture and the slate auditor,
I have been removed.
Auditor Trapp expects to leave the
| moving to his successor and suitable
rooms have not as yet been found
for the agricultural department
| , Oklahoma City.
, The old Oklahoma City high school
buildings will be the mecca for office
Mfcpekers, politicians and hangers-on as
I the governor, secretary of state, state
* .auditor, state treasurer, attorney gen-
eral and a few others will probably
be nble to crowd It fhere. k Just where
nil the other offices will be is yet un-
known.
But wherever they, move to, its all
right with Guthrie. Tf the courts say
"stay" that r,|u1s It. nnd if they say
"come bark." that's It. All In this
talk of national guardsmen to aid or
protect is one of the wildest vagaries
disordered and troubled mind.
LEOiMiE
Hill MI MEET
Guthrie Lawyers Contend That
Special Session Was Not
Legislature
TWO COURTS INVOKED
Petitions Filec^ in Both Supreme
and District Court- Attorneys
Ask That Injunction Against
Removal Be Graflted-Who
Has Jurisdiction
Yesterday tile attorneys for Guthrie
Iri the state capital fight filed two
similar cases, each asking for an order
restraining the various state officers
from removing to Oklahoma City
"Tie was liied In The Supreme Court
and was entitled w. H. Coyle v.
Thomas P. Smith, Secretary of State,
et al, and the other one, which was
flle^ in the Logan County District
Court was on the relation of James
Hepburn, County Attorney ,,r
ounty, against th*- same defendants.
1 wo causes of action are set forth
one that property rights have been
damaged and the second that tho leg-
islature acted without authority and
that the law is unconstitutional for a
number of reasons.
The petitions state that the reason
cases are brought in each court is that
(he attorneys wish to know whether
the law passed at the last special ses-
sion, conferring exclusive jurisdiction
on the Supreme Court is to be held
valid or not.
The Important portions of the peti-
tion are tis follow
fx
THE
M.S A\U
NUMBER 220
TWO BIRD MEN FALL TO
THLIB DEATH IN 8SE DAY
EAST Oil OF
1910 IS 510
Even in Distress Margaret PU. ao | Thirty Five Aviators Have Been
Had Stingy Christmas Tree | Killed During the Past
Between Wretched Beds j Twelve. Months
WAS'NT 1910 JOOD TO YOU? \ MOISANT ANDHOXSEY LAST I
Sad Discovery of New York
Policeman in Apartment House
Wo Food for Four During En-
tire Week Litile Dog Shared
the Suffering
1911 GREETED BY GUTHRIE
State Capital Whistle Sounds
Welcome and Noise Becomes
Epidemic — Streets Crowded
With Happy Throngs
Just at the stroke of midnight, pan-
demonium broke loose in Guthrie.
Headed by the big steam whistle of
the State Capital plant all the bells
- , an<3 whistles of the city clanged and
"That this action Is Instituted und- I shrieked, while not to be outdone the
er the provisions of a Act of the railroad engines In the yards took un
legislature, aproved December 7, 1910, , p
purporting to confer upon th s..- I discordant strain. I.ocal entliu-
•onfer upon the Su-
preme Court exclusive Juisdiction of
actions of this character; that there
Is a question whether the Court has
jurisdiction to entertain the suit, by
reason of the fact that the special
session of the legislature at which the
Act in question was passed was held
at Oklahoma City and not at Guth-
the seat of government of said
State, as required by the Constitution,
and on acount of the doubtful valid-
ity of the assembly which held such
as for other reasons.
I CONTI NUED ON PAGE THREE]
SAVINGS' BAMS
slasts got out In the streets with re-
volvers. rifles and shot guns and add-
ed to the din. Local autoists went
tearing around town with horns honk-
ing anil rampant noise reigned su-
preme.
hat few people hod gone to sleep,
woko up with the realization that old
1910 had passed into history and that
exhuberant young 1911 was making
known his prsence.
In all parts of the city watch parties
made up of long time friends toasted
1911 and then did their part in add-
ing to the din.
PRFSIDFNT'S GREETING
WASHINGTON,
sincerely hope
Dec
next
31.—"1
year
and
ea n
will he full of prosperity
as much happiness as
tome to us ail in this coun-
try," Is the new year greeting
sent to the people of
'United States by Pre
Taft through tlm nvmbe
tli-- National rivxs Hub
Washington. H« was
comed by them at an info
new years ' reception in
club house this aftei
the
sldent
PRESIDENT
NEW YORK, Dec. 31. -Tenants in the
apartment house at H."iii Utica avenue,
Hrooklyn. told Patrolman Grill of tho
Snyder avenue station they had not
seen Mrs. Margaret Pluinb, who lived
on the second floor, or any of her small
children for six days, and that re-
peated knocks at the door had not eon
answered. Grill rapped at the door;
there was no reply and he burst it open.
In a rear room he found Mrs. Plumb
- j Ivfne ■■ ■, n matt-re 4 with her U-inmith-
WIFE EECOVSEE EASY $9,000 j "Id son Harry In her arms. Both were
j almost dead from starvation. On a cot
nearby was tho 1-year-old son Ward
lilMAhD DIME!) IN BEEHl
Brewery Owners Lose Appeal to
High New York Courts Acci
dent Occured Two Years Ago
Children Happy
Jlprh, who
?d in a <
Both Macnines 3eemed to Turn 1
Turtle and D-ve for Earth I
Thousands of Miles Apart -
Was Bad Day for Flights at
Each Point
John B. Moisant and Arch Hoxney
aviators extraordinary, wtre killed
yesterday. Both fell ou^ of th. tr.^"
from """ W"l lh0lr "Chines-nether
from a vast h.ight-and Moi.anfs re-
maimng minute, of |jf# w„r<| 6o f>w
' C°"nt aa naught. Hoxsey vve
Killed instintly. r
Moisant met his death at 9:55 „
m, attempting to .light in a field a
few miles from New Orleans, Lu
Hoxsey, Wh„ went into th() a|r e
'n «h« afternoon at Los Angeles, la/
. " C'"«hed, lifeless mass
view of the thousands who wero
pallet was Edna, 3 years
unconscious, her little fa
I Grill
eloped
NICARAGUAN
MOW YORK, Dec. 31. Anita Paul-
ina Parsin. widow of the late John
Parsin, who was drowned In beer on
January 7, 1908. has recovered a ver-
dict of $9,000 for herself and her four
children. The verdict, against Chaa
O. Johnston, a contractor, and the New
York Breweries company, of London,
owner of the Flanagan, Nay Ac Co.
brewery, was returned by a supremo
court jury to Justice Ford.
JOHN C. SMITH DEAD
suffering
Doq
She wa
drawn with
s no cweriug on tho cot
her leg was broken, rt
r tho «irl hail fractured
lays ago. and crawled to
bt'd anil had lain there
onsciousness left her.
rinally Gave Up.
the two beds on a little piece
rpet was a small brown flog,
I was unable to snarl when
•-I the room Near tho dog
nigh guarded by the starved
as a wee Christmas tree
h puffs of cotton and here
on its almost bare branches
« iiiuusnnas who W(
On another j watching the aviation tournament.
t ^ I i.v la u < r~l~llJQ t I t r. I ^ # L J _ * i n &
•d eli
WILL BE OPEN TUESDAY M'CANN ~*GETS TIME
Board Adopts Rate of Interest to | Court Will Permit Attorneys to
Elected Yesterday for Two Years I
Term Long Controversy End I *>rom*Pent Masonic Worker
ed—Uniteu States Will Now
Recognize Government of Cen-
trial American Nation
United States
of
all t;
s orna-
starved
liristinas
't and
1.—Genera!
unanimous
| CONTINUED ON PAGP TWOl
Be Charged Depository Banks i
National and State Institu-
tions May Qualify
File New Petition
WASHINGTON. Deo. 31. Every-
thing is In roadin. m for the now postal !
ani-ings hank to begin operation. Tho :
hoard of trustees met at the office of j
Postmaster General Hitchcock today I
and concluded preparations for the op- |
!chicaoo. ill,, Dee. ai.-jronrwi
Police Inspector Kdward McCann. con-
victed of accepting bribes, ronight
gained another delay in th. execution
I of his prison sentence, when Judge
Carpenter In the T'nlted States dis
I lrlct court, granted Ills attorneys leavp.
j lo file .-in amended petition for his re-
'■ ase on a writ of habeas Corpus
This action came after Judge Car-
•••* *•" u|>- , i "i.t Iieiion «
eration of the new system on January ! n-nter had refused to Issue a writ of
3- The general regulations for the I ,,n,'eas sought on the plea that
administration of the now system werij i"1 a !"r>' trylns: t1,p former inspeitor
formally approved and likewise a set ! e" lmPropcrly,
of instructions to depository hanks.
Tile board adopted a resolution ti*
ing for the time being the rale of In
TULS'A OIL MEN HEAR STORY
terest to he charged depository banks
for deposits at 2 1-2 per cent, payable
semi-annually on January 1 and July 1
This rate is within a quarter of one
per cent of the minimum permitted
l v the postal savings bank law, which
leaves the fixing of the rate of interest
determined by the hoard with the
provision that it shall not be b as
than 2 1-4 per cent.
The law provides that both national
and state banks subject to national
or state supervision may qualify as de-
positories.
TPI,SA, Okla.. Dec 31.—Oil men '
here tonight heard a rumor that
agents of the Standard OH company |
will, -within a few days, make a bid I
MANAGUA, Nlc„ Dec
Juan .7. Estrada, by ti
vole of congress, today, became the
constitutional president of Nicaragua,
for a two year term. Adolfo Diaz
former minister of the Interior writ
elected vice president. In his aug-
ural address, President Estrada lauded
the gn\ eminent and people of tile
United States.
—o—
The inauguration of President Es-
ti.'Hla will bring to an end the long
controversy between the United States
ni"' Nicaragua, it having been an-
nrfuncod that If Estrada was elected
to the presidency by a ib el si Ve vote
the government of the United Stat, s
would reeognbe the present Niear-
ORuan government.
FOUNO NFW COUNTFRFEIT
WASHINGTON. Dec. 31.—A had
spot in President Harrison's whiskers
!n ;i portrait of him on a $5 hill—has
betrayed a gang of counterfeiters.
John C
Interior Balllnger
«n all of tho
to t Secretary of the
for a fifty year Ic
minerals in Osage county.
In payment for the lease It Is said
that tho company will offer J8.000 ooo
n cash, one million acres of land' in
Id Mexico to bp used as homesteads
and the transportation both ways for
the Indians.
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CAPITAL COMMISSION.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Dc. 31.—
Governor Haskell today named
the capitol commission as fol-
lows:
Tate Brady, Tulsa.
Leo Bennett, Muskogee.
Boone Williams, Lehigh.
These three men constituted
the commission appointed after
the June election.
* + * + 4
CHICAGO,
son Smith, 78 years old, one of the
most widely known Masons of the
country, died here tonight. He hail
been among the most active members
<>£ the Masonic order in the United
States for many years. He held many
honorary positions in the order and
was the author of several volumes
dealing with Masonic history.
GOOD HORsFKILLED
Run Over By Santa Fe Engineer
Last July
Calley Long has sued tho Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad for $100
damages in the superior court for the
killing of a horse last July just south
of Guthrie. Galley says that he was
basing tlie horse and that the Santa
Fe engineer saw the horse on tho
track but did not slack nor ever slow
up and as a consequence ran over it.
j The horse was of the value of $100
and Galley asks
that amount.
, «■«"' n
Thus the last day of 1910, in bring-
ing tho total numbor of deaths of
those who have sought to emulate the
birds, to thirty-five, capped the list
with two of the most illustrious of
tboce air men who have been writinq
the history of aviation in the sky of
two continents.
Moisant from Chicago
a Chicagoan by birth.
111 a,h. Minimis life In Central
interested ill aviation
in l ivinee less Ulan a year ago. After
souring lulu public recognition by his
l'l' " ' night from Paris across tho
'.ngli n channel to London nith a
pa longer, and later, finding himself
'' 'thout a machine, buying one from a
liioiul ami within ten minutes start-
ing on his winning flight from Reu-
nion! Park, \oiv York, around tho
Sl'" "" Liberty fnr a prize ,,f
S 10.000. Moisant came to ha> c a name
for fearlessness in the air.
Toda■ a sudden puff of wind caught
him within 500 feet of the <>;jrth
turned bis machine over and a broken
nock terminated his career.
\reh Hoxsey, after a year of U K '
form uc^ with the Wright aero-
plane Ir which he had come to hav>' a
name for fear! ssnoss and In which,
"nlv within the week he had set a
nerv world's altitude r-cord of 11,-
474 feet nnd then had sailed mora
than four thousand f et above the
highest mountain In California, ran
afoul ..r the kind of a shifty,
W ® -- . ,rr'acheroils w,nd when a matter of
Border Trouble Expected Anv "ir "nr1 a minllto
TTrtuv. rw tr i J j later a ho tlfied crowd, aroused from
Hour Neal Ft. Huachuca its h , k. was rushing madlv lo Where
1 !l broken n of humanity lay he-^#
| neath a torn hit of canvas and some
ken spars.
Headlong Dives
and batten
seemed that the
put It there on C
r her little family
ned to the strr
e bread and milk
she and
family had
j tuete.l no food since lost Saturday. i-:,ina
•he said, had broken her leg the dav '
j before by 'ailing from a elialr. Three
DDI'S I. Dill II. JO.I1
EXPECT FIGHT C> BORDER
Mexican Rebels Caught Endeavor-
ing to Get Ammunition Across
)OpS
for judgment for
BUGS GOT OVER IT.
LAWRENCE, Kan., Dec. 81.— The
University of Kansas has repudiated
promulgated nearly twenty years n^o
che chinch bug remedy which was
by Its grenteat entomologist, Chan-
cellor Snow, ami which gained world
wide renown nnd today was admitted
that the Snow method of clearing
fields of chinch bugs by spreading
disease among them is a failur
EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 31.—1
are being moved unders order_
1'ort Hauchuca to the International
line. Two troops are now euroute to
Fort Huachuca from Pr. scott. Trouble
is expected hourly on this side, as
armed rebels are crossing into Mex-
ico at some point in the Huachuca
mountains. Much ammunition was
confiscated today by the United
States officials having been discov-
ered in the mountains near the line.
CANNONS DAUGHTER ILL
Annual New Years Celebration '
Consequently Abandoned
WASHINGTON', Dec. 31.—Speaker
Cannon's new year reception, a func-
tion which has been annually observ-
ed at his Washington home since his
election as presiding officer of the
house, has been cancelled on account
of the Illness of his daughter, Miss
Helen Cannon, who Is suffering from
a severe cold.
Both i
manner.
tdd
'•? the same
as headed,
seemed to
v« r on its
the earth
a nieriot
the the
hold**
Avia-
tion expert; believt a sudden puff of
wind stopped his machine in the air,
and t'n ht-av Weight ahead dragged
the light frame work behind it. nip-
ping the then uselesss rear elevator
toward the zenith In derision. From
his, position partly back of the main
Planes Moisant was flipped, out. cle-r
of the machine, and struck the ground
r>n his head, hr aking his neck. Hn
iliei1 on a flat car on which was beiiuc
rushed to Xew Orion ns.
Hoxpcn likewise was returning from
""" ns. + . . - , Ilol. n Cannon, who Is suffering from
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