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VOULME XXI
THURSDAY MORNING.
GUTHRIE, OJO.AHOMA, FEBRUARY 9.4, 1910—EIGHT PAGES.
THURSDAY MORNING,
NUMBER 258.
SPECIAL LEGISLATURE BUSY
BILL IS RUSHED
SCHOOL LAND DEPARTMENT
TO BE REIMBURSED
BY $93,272.40.
PROVIDES PLACES FOR 27
STATE SALOON
HOUSE VOTES TO REPEAL
THE EXISTING DISPEN-
SARY LAW.
In Matter of Salaries Senators
Show Considerable Inconsis-
tency—Employes Salaries Total
$39,940 Annually—Solons Ex-
press Various Opinions.'
MEASURE GOES TO SENATE
Governors Forces Divide i".d
Forced to Acknowledge
Thorough D'Jbbing — Action
Comes After Long Fight
Speech Exhausts Lawmaker.
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tt'LEGiSLAlll
IN LONG SESSION MANY NEW
BILLS PASSED TO
ROLL CALL.
GOVERNORS PET KILLED
Corporation License Tax Measure
l'ails to Pass House on Record
Against Relocation Agricultural
Schooh in State—Oil Inspection,
and Appropriation Bills Pass.
Human Antithesis Is Now in Tombs
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LLClHTH STKE-.tlX
BROOKLYN
There is one thing sure, members
oT- the legislature are certainly incon-
sistent when it comes to regulating
salaries of officials in Oklahoma.
This was uemonstrated yesterday
when the hill submitted by the admin-
istration to provide salaries for school
land employes through Senator Mor
lis, was brought up for consideration
in the committee of the whole of ti %
senate, where it was reported on fa-
vorably and later passed. The meas-
ure, so far as the senate was concern-
ed, was one of those unfamiliar
games, but two senators seeming to
liave any knowledge of the needs of
the department which was asking for
twenty-seven or more employes, the
lowest salary to be paid touching
$1,020 per year and ranging 011 up'
the line to $3,300.
Inconsistency in this case came in
over the argument as to the amount
of salary which should be paid land
appraisers, four in number, and who
are to receive a salary of $1,800 each
per year. The point of Inconsistency
was brought out \>y Senator Blair, who
thought there had been a lot of croc-
odile tears shed over the high salaries
paid eouhfy officials and had cut them
in many directions, but now there was
the argument that school land em-
ployes were hardly paid sufficient,
even though their salaries were high-
er than county officials in many in-
stances.
TWO BILLS CONSIDERED
Two school land bills came up for
discussion in the committee of the
whole. The first was No. 80, which
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if the senate stands behind the
lower house of the legislature, the
stato dispensary is doomed. By a
safe majority, tne house yesterday af-
ternoon finally passed the amended
Jahn-Burnette bill, repealing the law
establishing the state saloon and
further providing for the destruction
of all liquor confiscated in the future
A prolonged debute occurred before
it was possible to bring the question
to an issue and place the members or.
record, but votes were taken in rapid
succ ession when the matter had been
thoroughly threshed out and the di-
vided governor's forces were complete-
ly whipped.
For days Speaker Wilson has been
attempting to secure from the engross-
ing committee a statement as to why
the bill was not reported for roll can.
Chairman Burnette Imd successfully
evaded the question, but yesterday
when the speaker announced the bill
ready to be voted upon, Burnette was
unable to be found. Mr. Wilson was
seriously inclined to call the roll, but
Dur.tlit fenced successfully for ten
minutes, and as a last resort aske 1
for a call of the house. Playing for
time enabled a page to hunt up-Bur-
nett^, and when he appeared 011 the
floor the call was suspended.
As the bill was engrossed It simply
repealed the entire dispensary law.
with one section. Burnette offered an
amendment to striko out everything
after tile opening enacting clause
and substitute the original bill, in
tended to confer on the governor much
additional power aloni; the line of en-
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Oklahoma at a Greatly Reduced ,
Rate Until March 27, 1910.
In an all day session yesterday, from
nine o'clock in the morning to slx-fif-
teen last night, the house ground out
business in great style, passed a num-
ber I of bills to third reading and many
more on roll call.
Tills were finally passed establishing
ounty court at Muldrow# Sequoyah
county, and Chant, Haskell county, and
Aftdn, Ottawa county, defining usury
and fixing the penalty, regulating oil
inspection, appropriating. $30,000 for the
states reformatory at Granite, making
taxes payable 011 two dates. giving fra
ternal and charitable organizations pref-
erence in selection of guardians, permit
ting cities under 10.000 to have park
boards, amending the school land law
slightly.
Features of the day's session were the
passage of the anti-dispensary bl'l anfl
the defeat for the time being of the
governor's corporation license tax bill
MANY NEW COURT TOWNS.
Under a motion to consider local bills
on the calendar, the house created five
new court towns, by advancing to third
reading, bills by Jacobs, establishing
county court at Muldrow. Sequoyah
county; by Boyle, court at Chant, Has-
kell county; by Tucker; court at Afton,
Ottawa county; by lluddleston, court at
Allen, Pontotoc county; by Hughes,
court at Chouteau. Mayes county.
A bill by SuMivan providing for an ad-
ditional county clerk in Talihina,
Flore county, was changed to a general
measure by an amendment by Mathis,
authorizing county commissioners to ap-
point county clerks fur new court towns
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President Heartily in Favor oil
Proposed Commission to Kevise|
Business Methods of Govern-
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Democratic Legislator Quoted As
Saying So-Called Investigation!
of Haskell Charges. Is Worse
Than Farcical — Is Governor
Boasting Murray?
POLICE FAIL IN STRIDE
Additional Force to Go on Duty
At Philadelphia Today All
Cars Run Under Police Guard
and Service Stops At 6 p. m
Riot At Locomotive Works.
Fill.
PHILADELPHIA,
The police officials of this city today
•virtually acknowledged their Inabil-
ity to cope with the present strike si:-
uatlon when a request was made of
the state police, that th 200 mem-
BLOODY BATTLE FOUGHT
Gen. Rivas Commanding Govern-
ment Forces Engages Revolu
tionists Under Gen. Chamono
and Drives Them From Position
—Number of Killed 400.
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MANAGUA, >. 23.—Another vie-
tcrv over the revolutionists has b
announced by General Toledo,
Nicaragua!! minister of wni. The
nouneement was oased on an official
<!'"patch received from General Rl-
\ys. in command of thi government
forcts, who engaged tho revolution
lsts under General Chaniorrj at TI*
ma.
General Toled? alsj mad- known
the fact that the losses on both si
had been very heavy and that th" bat-'
th had lasted seven hours, resulting
in the bloodiest fighting of the war.
The revolutionists were compelled to
abandon their positions.
General Rivas' dispatch was posted
on the street corners, bands appeared
in the streets and a general celebra-
tion followed. The dispatch says:
"The battle was the bloodiest yet.
there being much hand to hand fight
in* with machetes.
•'The losses are estimated at 400
killed or wounded. A detachment of
government tr6ops were , taken pris-
oners. but later their rescue was ef-
fected. Chamorro succeed In re-oit-
ganislng his forces and rushed the
trenches occupied by General Ramierez
ft |at 3 o'clock this morning at Tipltopa.
x J The fight lasted four hours, when the
government troops dislodged the in-
jijUurgents, who were routed by a gall-
"ling fir They abandoned dead and
,V wounded."
A —
OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 23.—While
Hob Wallace of l'auls Valley, democratic
representative from Garvin county, was
here during the past few days, en r
back to Guthrie from Pauls Valley, he
was interviewed by an Oklahoma City •
Pointer repffesentative and landed hard
oil Haskell lie is quoted by the pointer bera of his command I' liruiiglit f
M tOUOVC 11,18 clti for P°,ICe ,h"J',
"Talk about tlie Bulllnger investigation ' This ri;i|ti st tv.is 1 " '
at washington being a whitewash for the standing th«- s.- is riohiiK iviu
secretary of the Interior, is nothing to the frequotr tod.i> tii;tti 011 .in> il.i* :,il"
.called investigation of Oklahoma's the utrlk" ot thr stir'-l car men we->
governor. Haskell tixed things so that into .•rr.-.-l on last Saturday. rii;
he would name the committee which. Mai.- unlit" ;i
would investigate himself. Democrats I here tomori-ow
tliat holler about the Uallinger investlga- .sent into Un-
ion being a farce will stand for the pres. |whcrr> th.' (tt.it
cut torch! Haskell InvestlBatlon and say • M- -•>- ' sl'
Its all right. It HI depends on which l'' ' the fire, tin!" th- Rapid Ir.u- t
bull Is being gored, llut mark my words, compiny t™la\ sin
when the next governor of Oklahoma Is its ears until t, tie!
inaugurated, Haskell wi'l he either out of I'1™! line
a n d
ccted to re a
11 doubtless Hh
ngton dlstr
os had such
ruly terrltor.
all lines wei
Four policemen gua
and detectives parol-.d
n automobiles.
the state or in troublo Although the
majority faction Is undo- his thumb to-
day, yet the people are gradually be.
ginning to get onto Haskell.
Wallace believes that Haskell is prl- j
vately sting E1U Murray for governor rouP '''' ''
as Alfalfa Bill of Tishomingo will not,Ktl'r"fr ,l> 1
squeal on t,he present incumbent.. Has
l,oll and Murray were both over ti
poteau last week and had u love-feast, |spite
unknown to most of the politic!.
Guthrie.
i penetrates t
At that hour
I to the barn;
th-
l nd folio
'into the
cade
WEATHER.
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'H+ WASHINGTON. Feb. J. f
. j •?• Forecast—Oklahoma and Kansas, f-
fair, warnjer Thursday and Fri-
4- day. -f-
■f Arkansas Fal * and continued -f
Frlday fair with T
i.
Ij) j "t colder Thursda
1 rising temperature.
' -f Missouri Fair and rising tom-
-f p«*rature Thursday and Friday, -f-
iHfHf
ANII MARY WOULDN'T KNILI.
Up Stiffly, He Says.
A-ed the ring
houses until they captui
f the vigilance of the pr li .
many car windows were broken an
the company was finally obliged t
us" sheet Iron windows in placo i
glass panes.
Baldwin's locomotive works wa
the scene of a disturbance during th
lunch hour of the hundreds of em
m*-. «« attiittploves. One employe was shot In th
UNIQUE DIVORCE GROUNDo^ f(!u| >m)| tifl. ghots were fired at la
• [borers who sought refuge on the up
Aged Husband Prayed For 45 ■> >• "" <•« ' h""
a .. ed bolts and nuts at the policerw
Years But His Wite Alvvciys S-.fc
trlct. Every time, i he.nl appeared a
a window it was the target for a bul-
let from a policeman's revolver.
The board of education today decid-
ed jiot to open the two high chools
for girls until the serious strike trou-
FOR ARREST OF PHYSICIAN
Dr. James R. Hull of Monroe CUy
Charged With Administennsr,
Strychnine to Prod. Vaughn
Who Died At Kirksville Last
Fall Under Strange Conditions.
K1RKHVII.I.K, \i ■. r-
warrant charging Dr. .lane
f Monroe r'ity. with innrd
ft ssi
J. T.
ing w
of the Peace
this city, at the r«
ing Attorney Reigei
r. Hull is we
Ity
itli the
tile
It. Hull,
lug Pro-
by str>chnlne
night I.. Jus-
•'irrothers. ol
itinsr at Monro.
1 of Sheriff Nolai
sherifl left here
Hull
was n
otifled
• f tin probable
ssuance
Of ft
warrant
this afternoon
ind affi
pmed h
s innoi
ence. saying lie
had not
ling to
fear ar
d would accept
service
in the
warm n
t.
Hull
s nrarr
led and
has tWO mar-
rietl chi
dren.
He u
is fan
ily ph
sician of the
Procter
family.
of whl
•h Mrs. Viiagh'.
is a ni
nber,
for se\
■Till yars. II.?
also h;i
cond
icted a
small hospital
at Mon
•oe Cit
night with a passionate statement <>Cl
his feelihgs, after being .1 year in thef
white house, which brought the au-|
dienoe to its feet with cheers. 1
took occasion to pay his respects
the newspapers, saying he was goingl
home to Washington and avoid theni.|
Former Governor Franklin Murphy
introducing .Mr. Taft predicted thu|
PMldi hi would make good and took
fling himself at the newspapers.
"I had not Intended to say anything
on the subject of my first year in the|
white houssaid the president, "t
after what Governor Murphy has
graciously said, I can not refrain from|
a personal word, or two.
"It is true I told him I wanted taj
make good a ye^r ago. I am
certain of, doing it now. He saiifl
• i" tii ; 1'• "ii the newspapei^l
When the uewspu p''"rs are prone tcT
criticise and sometimes unite in hain4
Bering our administration, trcatiua
times with contemptuous dis-f
• lain ; 1 i d voiro tim s with paironizhi
f'rit udsliip. it is M il to o\ "i'e<)ine tlid
feeling that perliaps >011 Ought tcj
begin all over ,-igAin.
NEWSPAPERS REBUKED.
"In view of all that, to hav9 fec^
<*d the wefco'ine which greoted me t#
day gi\ m ;r little hop< that peiTvP
the newspapers don't carry in the!
pockots all of public opinion, and tha
• rhap I la Anierir i i people arc abld
to e,- througli something of hypercraa
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TAKES A VACATION
il'ir It
ilg th
n > 11 r
la 1 gi
begins
Indictment that
special grand .1
th th
TOPEKA, Kas., Feb. 2?..—A. K. Bar-
ker, 73 years old, was granted a di-
vorce from Mary Barker, .aged 03. by
the district court her today. On the ^ ^ ^
witness stand toda> Barker said. j toda> the fPipld Transit company
"l*'°r forty-five yeurs I have i>rn> .-•! [ lsf„,„1 „ ln which It if ,' lalin-
ed the strikers 'cannot and will not
win," adding thai, the company would
and're
Bible
supper.
but
as 1 prayed she would not bow her
head. She told me she was a Chris-
tian when we were married, but the
Sunday after she would not go to
church, nor the Sunday following.
After supper she would not kneel
when I prayed. I said, "Mary, knee!.'
"'It hurts my knees/ she said. Then
I asked her to bow her head, but she
sat up stiff."
LAYMEN ATTEND BANQUET.
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 23.--Eighteen
hundred guests attended a dinner at
Convention hull tonight that marked'
the beginning of the Kansas City con-
vention of the Laymen's Missionary
movement. The delegates to the con-
vention represent the Protestant
churches of western Missouri.
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MRS. VAUGHN DOESN'T BELIEVE.
PARIS. Mo., Feb. 23. Mrs. Alma
Vaughn, through her broth- r. Attor
nev David M Procter, of Kansas City,
in a statement Issu-'d today, charges
that if strychnine really has been
found in the viscera taken from the
body of her husband. Professor J. T.
Vaughn, It was placed there after his
death Jn persons who had personal|
reasons lor such actions.
SENTENCED TO PRISON.
LONDON, Feb. 28.—In the Derby
assize court today Violet Gordon
Cliarl*- .-worth and her mother were
each sentenced to five years penal
servitude for obtaining money under
false pretenses and for fraudulently
representing that the younger woman
w s an heiress to a great estate.
Both prisoners collapsed.
CRUSADE BRINGS
WASHINGTON, Feb.
sade of the bureau of
against the selling of
RESULTS
2">.—The cru*
Indian affairs
whisky to In-
dians has resulted In more than a
thousand convictions from this cause
in the past eighteen months.
JUTX3E PETE/e 9 6ROSSCUT
XKW YORK, Feb. 23. Declaring
ihe 1 *riited States would scon beconi^
pane on the question of "trusts,"
would put forward • fforts to regn|
1 at- rath- i* than exterminate thenil
Judg Peter S. Groscup, of Chicago!
left on board tin Caronla, of th.l
('unard line, for < vacation trip o|
bet w' 11 seventy and eighty days.
Judge Groscup said ho would teavl
the Caronia it Ah vandria. and would
take a trip up the Nil-.*, lie hopes t.l
be in Rome about Faster. After thai
he will go across the Continent an<|
return from England.
Speaking of conditions in the Un!t J
States. Judge Groscup, who reversal
CRUISFR BRISTOL LAUNCHED the decision finding the Standard 0|
LOND )N. l-vi. •'! The London compuny $29,000,000, said he believe
class cruiser Bristol wits launclu i at'economic conditions here w ere in
Clyde Bank today. It i« '1 e fir>t Brit-1 proving constantly and that ther|
lsh warship to be fitted with turbine would so.ui be a readjustment of cpfi
^->^^^e-c>^^>^^l^englncs of the Curtis (American) type, puration condition*.
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