The Tahlequah Arrow. (Tahlequah, Okla.), Vol. 25, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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TIIE OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF CHEROKEE COUNTY
TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR.
TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 4. I I2.
NUMBER l«.
FIRE
In North Part of Town
Does Damage
(From Tuesday'8 Daily Arrow.)
Last evening a lamp in the room |
of Ruth Duly, who rooms with the |
family of Edward L. Cline, who re- j
side in the Pearl Blair house near j
the big spring, exploded and scatter- t
ed oil over the room and the paper |
on the walls and ceiling became a \
serious blaze. Miss Duly's trunk j
was gotten out, but as the most of I
her clothing was hanging on tha j
wall, excepting what she had on, all
of her wearing apparel was destroy- |
ed. The fire was all confined to the
one room and as far as the damage
to the hous<-. is concerned, it was |
covered by insurance. There being
no insurance of Miss Duly's ward-
robe her loss will be total.
H
Lawyers Must
Help Court
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2.—Lawyers
practicing before the supreme court!
of the t'nited States will be forced
hereafter to give a helping hand toj
the court's movement to facilitate"
business.
According to the now court rules,
which went into effect yesterday, at-j
terneys for the plaintiff before tli' i
supreme court must file their briers j
three weeks before the caae is called '
for oral argument. The defendants' j
attorneys must file their briefs one
week before the argument? are made.
In all the cases the clerk is in-
structed to receive no briefs where
counsel has not served copies on op-
posing counsel.
The provision was designed to put
an end to counsel appearing before
the court unprepared to answer ar-
guments opposing side and delaying
the court by supplemental briefs,
dealing with the opposing argu-
ment.
The court has announced its de-
termination to receive no briefs af-
ter a case has been argued orally.
1912 CROP PLANS ARE NOW IN ORDER
Alfalfa, Corn and Hogs for Cherokee County Farmers would make
a splendid slogan for every farmer in our County. Diversified farming
will not only assure independence for the farmer, but will also make more
money and develap the farm into beter "11. With the good rains and
snows which have returned to the soil the much needed moisture, a
good crop for 1912 is very promising.
The time of year is here when the farmer should have his land for
1912 crop prepared and if he has not, he should begin at once. The First
National Bank will take pleasure in aiding any farmer to secure pure
seeds for planting purposes and advise those who need seed of any kind
to get the best in order to build up the quality of the product.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS $100,000.00
W. W. HASTINGS, Pres.
D. O. SCOTT, Cashier.
I). W. WILSON, Vice-Pres.
J. ROBT. WYLY, Ass't. Cashier.
WRECK
Causes Death of Six
Persons
ANETA, N. D., Jan. 2.—Train No.
3, the "Oregonlan," on the Great
| Northern, was ditched and at least
six persons were killed and a score
of others injured yesterday morning
near Sharon, Steele county. The fa-
talities occurred in the diulng car
and the bodies were burned by fire
which started in the debris.
With the thermometer registering
12 degrees below zero the injured
passengers anil trainmen suffered
before they could be fiven aid. The
general manager's car and th ob-
servation car were b^th transformf'
into temporary liospitnls for the •
lief of the victims, while others weic
taken to farm houses.
Officials had given orders not to
try to extricate corpses until the in-
jured had been cared for, and the
fire burned so briskly that the
bodies were cremated before identi-
fication could be made. Passengers
are confident that the list of dead
will be greater than now reported.
Parts of bodies were scattered hun-
dreds of feet.
ACCEPTS
MORE
LUCRA"
VK POSITION
To Stop Tariff Board Appropriations
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The Contest is getting livelier
every day. The contestants are
getting busy, and a big cam-
paign is promised.
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Mrs.
Godau Confesses
To Horrible Crime
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Demo- .
crats of the house of representatives j
plan to eliminate from the next sun- ;
dry civil appropriation bill the $225,- j
000 appropriation for the president's j
tariff board, the $75,000 appropria- I
tion for the economy commission, j
and the $25,000 appropriation for
the president's traveling expenses.
Democrtic members of the appro-
priations committee are understood!
| to be unanimously in favor of this
| elimination program and they be-
lieve that the cutting out of this ex-
penditure of $225,000, all of which
1 is under the direction of the presi-
dent, will meet with the approval
| of the majority in the house.
The sundry civil bill will be ready
for submission to the house in Janu-
ary and the Democrats plan to defend
the denial of the quarter of a mil-
lioSi appropriation for the tariff board
on the ground that the very princi-
ple of a tariff body under the direct
is un-
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Contestants for Diamond •>
Rings are invited to call at (his ❖
office and examine the prizes. •!*
Three Diamond Rings. ❖
*♦ •£♦ 'J«y Jh|
John Rommel, who has been iden-
tified as manager of the Tahlequah
Light and Power Company for sev-
! eral years, resigned his position with
' that company to take effect the first
of the year and left for Wagoner
yesterday where he has accepted a
similar position with the new plant
recently installed in that city.
| Burins their stay in Tahlequah,
both Mr. and Mrs. Rommel bavo
made a host of friends who regret
their departure but wish them suc-
cess in their new field of labor.
Mrs. Rommel left for Coalgate this
morning for a few days' visit with
friends preparatory to going to her
new home.
MOBLIE, Ala., Jan. 2.—After an oral thousand dollars life insurance.
inquest over the body of Frederick The second husband, William
Wasserleben, who was shot and killed Green, disappeared from home and
in his home, the coroner's jury last was never heard from again.
night rendered a verdict that his Mrs. Godau was arrested for the 1 supervision of the president
death was brought about by gunshot murder of her last husband, who was democratic.
wounds in the head, received at the found murdered on a September They further will point out that
hands of Mary T. Godau, his mother- morning in 1902. Mrs. Godau tried lthe constitution gives to the house
In-law. The jury also recommcndcd to fasten the crimc on a negro. The of representatives the power of luitia'
that Wasserleben's wife and brother- negro was acquitted. He proved ti.?
in-law William Green, be hold as ac- husband was insured for $3,00 > and
complices. I that she got the money, detectives
At the inquest Mrs. Godau testi- being sent here from Omaha, Neb.,
fied that she shot Wasserleben while to substantiate evidence in his favor.
he was In bed because he invited her j ■ -
to kill him after he had offered her !
an insult. She declared she dressed DOWafJer Ettl"
Negro Lynched for
Murder and Assault
PATTERSON TO SANITARIUM. | MULDROW, Okla., Jan. 2.—Wil-
SEATTLE, Wash., Dec. 29.—A: bur Turner, a negro, was hauled to
court order was signed here yester-
the body and dragged it down stairs
hiding it in the darkness on the front
porch In order that her children
might not know of the deed. Later,
she said, she conveyed the corpse to
a lonely spot at a distance from the
house where it was found Sunday
morning. She wanted to make it ap-
pear that-the murder was committed
by thugs, she said.
Mrs. Godau declared
press Refuses Loan
PARIS, Dec. 29.—A Pekin dis-
patch to the Paris edition of the
New York Herald says:
"Disgusted at the refusal of the
imperial clan to contribute to the
repeatedly war chest Yuan Shi Kai last night
that her daughter and Green are in- took sick leave. It is believed that
nocent. this presages his early retirement
Mrs. Godau says she didn't sleep from the. premiership. He bitterly
much that night. resents the bad faith of Wu Tang
"Fred tried to assault me and Fang and his party in proposing a
when I fought him off by tearing his national congress and now insisting
shirt almost off, he fired a shot at upon a rump, not a representative
me, but I jumped out of the way," congress. Yuan fears that a repub-
she said. lie means the country's dissolution
"Fred then threw the gun on the and believes the only sane solution
bed and told me to kill him, that if is to fight it out, but he is handicap
tive in revenue legislation and will
contend that a presidentially con-
trolled tariff board practically
amounts to a usurpation of this
power.
The house Democratic members
have an economy plan of their own
and will insist that the maintenance
of the economy commission is a
waste of time and money. They will
argue that the house expenditures
committee for the various depart-
ments of the government can take
care of any economies that may be
needed if members of the cabinet
fail to discover extravagances of ad-
ministration.
As far as the president's travel-
ing expenses are concerned the Dem-
ocrats feel that the annual appropri-
ation of $25,000 for that purpose is
being used against the "Democratic
enemy" and they propose to cut it
off for that reason. These elimina-
ted, it was certain to provoke live-
ly discussion when the sundry civil
bill was reported.
day permitting Governor Patterson
of Tennesee to remove his twenty-
three year old son, Malcolm C. Pat-
terson, from Washington on filing a
bond of $5,000 to guarantee that the
young man would not return to this
state.
Ex-Governor Patterson furnished
the bond and his son, who had been
in the county jail, was turned over
to him. He has stated he will place
the youth in a Tennessee sanitarium.
I didn't do it some one else would,
sooner or later. I fired a shot into
his head. Sooner than hear him
moan and scream, I finished him. I
then wiped up the blood from the
floor with an old blanket and tried
to hide everything, even cutting the
bullet out of the winder that he
fired at me. I then put his coat on
him, buttoned it up, and dragged the
body into a wagon. I hauled the
body throug' the rain to the pond,
backed the wagon into it and
dumped the body out."
Charles Stein, the first husband
of Mrs. Godau, the self confessed
murdress, was shot, supposedly by
night mauraudere. He carried sev-
ped by a lack of money."
PEKIN, Dec. 29.—The assembly In
the palace yesterday to discuss affairs
connected with a settlement of the
revolution was productive of at least
the limb of a tree liere yesterday
morning for one oi tiio most atrocious
crimes in the history of Sequoyah
county. After oeitii* allowed to go
into the home of George Carson, a
prominent white farmer living near
hf>re, to escape the cold, he murdered
Carson, and then criminally assault-
ed Mrs. Carson three times. He v/as
arrested in the house after Mrs. Car-
son had fled from the house a milo
and a half over the ise and frozen
ground, in her bare feet, to a neigh-
bor.
As soon as the neighborhood lound
the extent of the crime they prompt-
ly marched upon the flimsy struc-
ture used as a calaboose here,
brushed the marshal aside, took the
negro out and hanged him to a limb
PEKIN, Dec. 28.—Representative ! of a tree that grow by the 1MI. nM
members of the imperial court, ac-: which looks as if it were grown for
Manchurian Rulers
Willing to Abdicate
cording to an authoritative source,
have signified to Premier Yuan Shi
Kai their willingness to agree to an
adbdieat.ion. The court, the same au-
thority states, realizes that there is
no hope for it in the detention of
three or four detached sections of
the country and semi-loyal provinces
and hopes to obtain better terms by
the very purpose, as a luoru ideal
gallows could not be found for t(ie
commission of a lynching.
BURRELL TO GET FAIR TRIAL.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 29.—
Governor Cruce yesterday received a
telegram from Governor Thomas R.
igreeing to the proposed referendum ! Marshall of Indiana, stating that
UNDERWOOD iLL.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Repre-
sentative Oscar W. Underwood, chair-
man of the ways and means commit-
tee, is ill at his apartments here,
threatened with appendicitis. On the
eve of one of the biggest tariff bat-
one dramatic incident. The dowager ; ties that congress has witnessed in
empress. Premier Yuan Shi Kai andjyears- 'n which Mr. Underwood is
the princess of the imperial clan
were present and the dabate waxed
so warm that finally Yuan Shi Kai
arose and offered his resignation.
This, however, was refused.
Premier Yuan explained to the
to lead the Democratic forces, his ill-
ness caused great concern among
members of congress.
Mr. Underwood left his office
Thursday feeling in good health and
said he was going into retirement to
princes that he could continue the study the tariff schedules and be
government and retain the country ready to take up the work of lram-
north of the Yang Tee, only by bav-1 ing the tariff bill with his col-
ing funds placed at bis disposal. leagues next week,
on the questton of the form of gov-
ernment.
Premier Yuan Shi Kai fully real-
izes that the republican spokesmen
gathered the peace conference at
Shanghai are not likely to accept his
proposition for a carefully selected
assembly representing the entire em-
pire. lie is of the opinion that the
republicans know that time will fa-
vor his (Yuan Shi Kail's) plans.
The premier is certain that he
could win several battles with the
modern army at his disposal, which
is better equipped and greatly su-
perior to the rebel forces, but as he
is unable to obtain any loan he would
be unable to reconquer the lost prov-
Yuan Shi Kai, in all probability,
will resign his office after making
the best terms possible for the
throoe.
the judge who will try Hugh Burrell
the former Indiana banker, who is
resisting requisition for his return to
that state to answer charges of em-
bezzlement, larceny and overdrawing
his bank account, has agreed to fix
Burrell's bond at $1,000 to $2,000,
which, it is believed, Burrell easily
can give.
The governor also received a tele-
gram from the judge stating that if
Burrell is taken back to Indiana he
will be given a speedy and fair trial.
Governor Cruce will announce his
decision regarding the requisition
some time today. Attorney Kistler
of Muskogee, yesterday wired the
governor that he wants to be heard
before the executive announces his
decision and the request was granted.
Kistler represented Burrell at Mus-
kogee when his case wbb taken up
ttwo.
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