The Oklahoma State Capital. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 159, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 25, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME XXII.
SUTKP.IE, OKLAHOMA
TUESDAY MORNING
OCTOBER 25, 1S10
TEN PAGES
TUESDAY MORNII
NUMBER 350
ME CF DM
Came Near Shocking People Who
Expect Anything
HOW
il. AIR LOST OUT
Man Who Was Befriended by tlie
I-ate Bill Cross and Who Got
His Nomination Sues Widow -
Facts More Like Fiction
(Alfred A. Greenlee.)
OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 24.
things have (lev.'l M). (1 in
Gigantic White Star Liner Launched
m and rotation
tration that
have almost l
are almost levo
anything which
So startling ar
neetion with the
that their rectal
and, were it not
taxpayers o' Okli
to the continued
line of suc-
H.iSKelizoil
the people of {' i.
ecome numbed and
ievelftps.
• developmnts in con-
acts of the brflnde*l
seems more like0 fidion
for the*fact that the
homa have bcome wise
■hiMjt of Liar ti .1 t!ii<■■
and all that sort of thing which the
Haskellized rress and the !SIe Too crowd
short the assertions might be doubted,
Tn Oklahoma, however, after three
years of Hsten'ng to just that sort of | ino« to millions. Kverv
shout the people of tjie state are asit-
ing that denials of charges he made
plainer, and more to the point than bare
assertions; that the honks be opened up
and replies he made from them.
It Is a strange sanation "ndeed thar
confronts one here. Take f -r Instance
the Governor of the state, ills favorite
expression 's "Liar" and thon hp In-
variably goes off the tangent and forget*
to dfietjss the things which have been
Charged.
Such is the case with the facts which
have developed in eonneetion with tn
death of the late Bill Cross, secretar.7
of state, and who was a candidate for
nomination to the office of state audlt-
oor when he died. The story is -so hor-
rible thr t few want to believe It hut.
they must admit that It ;s truth re- ! 1'ortici
NAPLES, Oct., 24.—The Island
Ischia , in tho Mediterranean
j sua, sixteen miles southwest of the
I city of Naples, "has been storm-
| swept. First reports reaching
Jliere gave a very considerable loss
j of life from a tidal wave.
I Communication with the island
is difficult, but brief dispatches
i from < asamicciola state that
\vhile it is believed some persons
were killed bv the collapse of i
houses, the body of only one i
woman has, so far been recovered.
Naples suffered from a furious
storm of wind and rain last night
and all today, the damage amoun-
ction of
the city bears the marks of the
gale and the suburbs was even
more seriously affected, several
persons being killed. The sur-
rounding country has been de-
vastated, great quantities of
grapes, vines, trees, walls and
parts of houses boing scattered
about in all directions.
An avalanche of stones and
mud rushed from Mount Vesu-
vius above tlie lava line of the
eruption of 1906. It swept all be-
fore it as far as the town of
It wrecked the tram lino
the rv "T.i.-ir" raised hy j ancJ engulfed
interested in covering
11 (farly a score of
victims.
The hurricane caused much de-
pardlesi
those i
facts.
For over three years these snme peo- j
i.ip mntinuci to assi -i tiint r\vnn<-' urn I struction along tho coast of the
T w" nnt Tr"'Pd' ,!'a, nn.V*Pr.s°il ll'rovincc of Salerno. The town
who ma le such a statern nt stated |
what was not true, wen- ldssed. etc. of Cet&ra is reported to have been
and then, almost before the body of the | destroyed. Twelve bodies 'have
' late Sorr.ti.ry of gtato has l,een laid to I ta'licll 1roni ,ho wrecked
rest appears in court Leo Meyers, who i
had been Cross's deputy for three years houses, there ©ar
and who drew a salary as deputy simply
because Cross permitted him to and who
(CONTINUED ON PAG" THREEO~
SHOT 10 DEATI!
ST JOSEPH, Mo, Oct. 21.—Wade W.
Coulter died tonight as the result of
beirg shot four times by William H.
Davis. Coulter was calling at tlie Davis
home when he as shot. Mrs. Dawvls,
who is twenty years the Junior of her
husband, and a handsome woman, said
Coulter came between her and her hus-
band, and she justified the shooting.
Hoth Davis and his wife are under ar-
rest.
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WEATHER.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—Fore-
cast—Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas
Wednesdav, not much change In
temperature.
the
many
injured.
Atnalfi and Sorento also suffered
considerably . The reports place
the Ijgt of dead in the storm zone
as high as 200.
RUSSELL TURNED IT DOWN
ARDMORE, Okla., Oct. 24 —Judge
Russell denied the petition from Love
county to enjoin the county election
board from placing the names of
nominees for county weigher and one
commissioner on the ticket and the
contract was let today f«r the printing
of the ballots In that county.
IV j,
THE
BEL/FAST—The first af the two mam-
moth White Star liners, the Olympic,
launched successfully amid scenes cf
much enthusiat
In accordance with
tho custom of tlie White Star line there
was no christening ceremony.
The new vessel is of 45,000 tons. Hh«
has0been building for twenty-two months
and it will be some eight months longer
before she is ready for her trial trip. The
Olympic is a triple screw steamer, her
principle dimensions being: length over
SS2 1-2 feet; Breadth over all, f>2 1-2
w; height from bottom of keel to too
-aptaln's house, 105 1-2 feet. She
WHEX COMPLETED
exceeds by nearly one hundred feet in
leitgth and by thirteen thousand tons any
other ship afloat.
The Olympic will #accommodate 2,500
passengers and a crew og S60. She has
eleven steel, decxs and fifteen water
tight heads. A sifter vessel, the Titanic,
Is building and will soon be launched.
Democrats Should Not Be Given
Governmental Control
DEMOCRATIC TAKIFF IDEAS
If Placed in Force, Would Bring
Disaster to Wagearners and
Producers of the Nation, Says
Senator Albert Cummins in
Chicago Address
1 1IICAOO, Oct. 24.—The apeech-maklr.g
phase of thlm Republican ooncreMlonai
lampajpn began here tonight when Sen-
ator Cummins 0& Iona speaking under
the auspices of the Hamilton Club a1-
ressed n meeting In Orchestra halt
The announced intention of the lowt
senator was to gain Republican votes
aJld to this the keynote of his
sprech was what lie termed the folly or
noting for Democrats when the only hope
'f obtaining desired reforms was to elect
Rspuhller ns. 0
■For the man who ln his heart wants
preserve f-lr and reasonable protec-
tion for the American wage earner, and
American producer, and.who, there-
'. wants duties so adjusted that they
Mill measure the difference between the
cost nr production at home and abroad
anc' who in his heart abhors tile Demo-
r-rntlc faculty of duties for revenue laone
it would he the extreme of madness to
vote for a nemo, rati,- candidate fur con-
gress. who. if he he honest, will 'rob tlie
luntry of its surest safeguard," sa'd
Senator Cummins.
"The protest against excessive duties
has .been effectually made; but wemust
in the passion of disappointment
strike a just principle because we mav
hot be satisfied with Its pr
calfon."
ST. JOHNS, N. P., Oct., 24.-
The steamer Regulus, bound.from
Belle island to Sydijey, N. B., was
wrecked during a heavy storm off
the Bay of Bulls, thirty milss
from here, yesterday and her
crew of nineteen drowned. The
Kegulus broke her tailshaft near
the bay and a tug picked her up.
The storm increased, however,
four hawsers were parted and the
Regulus became lost in the fog
and darkness. At daylight the
steamer was found to be a total
wreck on a point of land at the
entrance of Shoal bay. The crew
had been swept into the sea.
TO WATER'S EDliE
CALUMET, Mich , Oct. 24.—The coal-
carrylng steamer, Langham, burned to
the waters edge off Keweenaw Point
Sunday afternoon. The crew of fifteen
men and one woman abandoned the craft
In time to save themselves.
ent appli-
KEOKUK, la., Oct. 24.—Mrs. Rena
Steutternian threw two gallons of
gasoline over herself, her husband and
her son last night, then set fire to the
trio. She and her son died today an l
the husband is In a precarious condi-
tion. It is supposed the woman 3
mind was unbalance
ANXIOUS TO FACE
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Oct. 24.—Leigh
candy bandit",
who claims to
aelis, a den-
EAST ST LOUIS, 111.,
Rh-dus, the confessed
arrested here yesterday,
have killed Dr. W. F. IV
tist of Englewojd, a suburb of Chicago,
on August 5, last, is anxious to face
trial on the murder charge in Chicago.
Late today he asked Chief Purdy, of
the local police, to take him to Chicago
Immediately.
Dogs Act as Bridesmaids
at Wedding in New York
every one wanted il court house
but not a $65,000 one for ,000
Another Chapter in the Record of a Democratic Administration in Logan County—Walk Around
and Look at the Columns Covered With Mud Which the Taxpayers Paid for—
Crumbli ng Monument of Favor Adminis traticn
NO WORD YET RECEIVED
Worked Out Scheme.
Something like four
was worked out
back o
of the
' NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—Just tho
minute Rev. E. L. Copefied started tho
wedding service, making Mrs. Mary
Schley Bowen, a wealthy San Francis-
co society woman, and Percy W.
Evans, head of a Seattle shipping
concern, man and wife today, the three
bridesmaids began to frisk and caper
/ibout. It took all the soothing ef-
forts of the best man, Arthur Delro.v,
and Mrs. E. F. V. Caldwell, of San
Francisco, matron of honor, to keep
them fairly quiet so that the cere-
■t ny could proceed.
The wedding was being held at the
home of Mr. Delro.v, lavishly furnished
with rare objects of art from Japan.
The bridesmaids were Kondo-San,
Pinka-San and Otovo Oeisli, and woro
jpnrgeously embroidered gowns with
tiny lace. They are high pedigreed
Japanese spaniels from the Mikado's
imperial kennels and were simply glad
to see their mistress, who had them
by a leash.
Japanese scoonces shed a light on
the scene. On a pedestal near the
improvised altar stood a hideous
grinning dog of Chinese porcelain and
close by a great bronze buddha smiled
benignly in his gilded niche.
The sotting for the wedding was
quite appropriate, for the couple first
met while traveling in Japan a year
g<> After the ceremony the dog
bridesmaids were given a dog dinner
by Mrs. Eugene Clarke, wife of the
opera singer, at which Miss Lillian
Russells toy spaniel was also a guest.
Mr. Evans arrived from Eurr
ars ago there
scheme which those
movement gaw their wav
t > bulla a court house In l,of;an coiintv-1
as well as the taxpayers. These men
made It appear as though the taxpayers
,ult1 sot something like
cuts for every dollar expended and
naturally there wa no objection- In fa,
all realized that the county needed i„st
such .1 building and needed It badly
Prominent men all over the county we,-,,
asked regarding the necessity of a now
court Lome and every one of them am-
?ered— "Build It by all means; pive us
good court house. The cost'does not
■ liter into tlie proposition; spend one
two, three tho isand dollars if nooessnrv
but give us honest building
lists.
worth what
Did Not Expect $1.65 for SO.65.
tn fact all wanted a court house,
they did not desire to pay fl.es fo
sixty-five cent hulldlng.
Having sounded the minds, felt
pulse and all that sort of thlnu,
"untv
of T,o
countv
mnty
democratic administra-
tion at the time with
county commissioner ni
ount.v sheri
for a )
Thlp \
pie the
John Favor, a
doner and P.art Murphy
proceeded to *et busy,
iri'hitect's plans Rave ostlmtes
tiding- which ranged about $65,000
s the building which most peo-
ght would be constructed.
T he commissi oners let the contract for
n eourt house to the Manhattan Construc-
tion company for lioo.onn and paid the
construction company $1.10,000 in w;«r-
i rants which the county will not he able
wl" n,tur" «'ith his bride tn- to pay off for the next seven years,
morrow. After a trip of throe months i A Frightful stench.
they will BO to live ln Seattle. i Since the day the contract was let
ope to-
ROTTEN! ROTTEN!
Yesterday the Capital went to the
trouble of asking fifty business men aod
taxpayers of Logan county the following
question
"WHAT DO YOU THINK OF
A SET OF MEN WHO WOULD
PAY $130,000 FOR A $65,000?
There was no effort to select Demo-
crats. Socialists, prohibitionists or Re-
publicans. No thought of the business
man's political views, Just the simple j did
question above jresei
Every man out of the fifty, with one j ed I
exception said:—
"R O T T E N!" The
The other fellow whispered:— crumbli
"I'm a friend of some of the fel-
lows your driving at—can't fool
nie—you are thinking of the court
house. I'll tell you whnt I
think—The lets we Democrats
say about it the better."
there has been a frightful stench at the
corner of Harrison avenue and Broad
street, All onq has to do is to take a
look at the two great columns at the
west entrance and then walk around to
the nrtrth side of the building and take
a .squint at the equally as large columns
on that side, to Ret some idea of tho sta-
bility of the buildinpr which a Democratic
administration permitted being worked off
on the taxpayers of the county.
These columns are simply frame and
have been covered with cement to make
them look like stone The cement eov-
anything but honest v
Not Worth $65,000.
OTTAWA, Ont., Oct. 24.—An organ-
ize,! effort to loi-aie Al.in Hawley and
Augustus Post, crew of the missing
balloon American II, was inaugurated
here tonight when Edmond F. Strat-
ton. of New York, a member of the
Aero club of America, arrived and at
oner opened a bureau to conduct in-
bottom
dit to t
thrc
•art
ustern
the
f'anada
inn port
;d, I will send
out a well equipped search and relief
party from the nearest available point.
The expeditions for more extrusive
exploration then will be dispatched
from several points."
Otter and Chapleau, Ont., have been
operations and there will be at least
designated as two "of the bases of
one in eastern Quebec. All will be
directed from the headquarters in this
city.
The!
spirit
of friendship
iite men,
ind Post
11. and all help w hich
ron, until the r
citizens of the
with the Favor
lis had been ki
administration.
unnent of Democratic busi-
ness management. One does not have
to take the word of a single person-
walk around and take a look at the four
alleged stone columns and then a'ter sor-
ing them just recall the fact that a
little over a year ago when the plaster
fell off of them that they were repaired
well as shoddy workmanship walks
'about the building.
I Of course the people of T.ogan county—■
to a man—wanted a court house. H it
I they wanted a building which was worrh
the money. When they wrote letters*
stating that they favored a court house
thev also meant that tney did not favor
paying $130,000 for a $65,00J building.
They did not expect a Pennsylvania
state capital graft—not by any means.
Look at what a Democratic adminis-
tration did for the farmers and taxpayers
of Logan county Now, this same set
of men, headed by the Democratic coun-
ring has , ra< ked from top to bottom Jty chairman. John Favor, are asking that
diowlng the shoddy nature of the con- [they be given another crack at tlie fundt-
itructlon for which honest money was of the county.
SUPERIOK, Wis., Oct., 24—A
huge anthracite cual storage sin* I
oii the Malumna coal dock caught
tire in an unknown manner short-
ly after midnight and. was a
total loss. It contained 250,000
tons of anthracite eoal. The
loss will be $500,000
SPEECHES
DEMON
GUARANTEE LA*
MAKES THREE
BINGHAMTON. N. V., Oct. 24.—TI •
study®of scientific farming at cl< s ran\n
kept Theodore Roosevelt busy today. He
rode ninety miles In an automobile to
inspect abandoned farms of this section
of the state, beginning at Ithlca, and
ending at B'nghamton. and decided
that a farmer who goes about It In wr
the right way can make a good living treasurer of
from land which is now going to waste. I league today
lilch
of
BASEBALL ELECTION
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the Southern bu-eo<U
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