The Shawnee News (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 197, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 15, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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SIXTEENTH TEAK WEDNESDAY EVENING EDITION.
SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA, WKDNKSIlAV, VOVKMHEB vC 11*11
FIYB CENTS.
WANT 10 SELL
WINS VICTORY IN
SUPREME COURT
Anderson Company in Fixing the Old
Wagon Up and Would Like to
Sell City New One.
The mayor has received a commu-
nication from the Anderson Coupling
and Fire Co., to whom the chemical
truck was sent for repairs, aBking
if the city did not want the wagon
repalned and other minor repairs
made, while the wheels and chemical
tank were being fixed. The council
last night ordered that the needed
improvements be made. The com-
pany makes no charge for the re-
pairs to tb< wheels and chemical
tank.
Accompanying the' letter was an
urgent invitation to the city to have
representatives call at their plant
and inspect some auto trucks and
other automobile apparatus under
construction. The letter stated that
a most attractive proposition could
be made the city now, if the council
desired to replace the old equip-
ment with modern auto equipment.
Wedding Bells.
Tuesday night at 7:15 o'clock, in
the office of the First United Breth-
ren Ch.urcb, Rev. L. Walter Nine
read the beautiful marriage cere-
mony which united in holy wedlock
Catherine Higgins and W. H. John-
Bon, both of Shawnee, and well
known and higMy esteemed by a
large circle of friends. The cere-
mony was witnessed by a few close
friends and relatives. Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson will be at home to their
many friends at 1129 North Union
avenue, this city.
Supreme Court Hold# Again Corpora-
tion CominlHKien in Matter, of
Establishing Tins Hates. '
The power of the State Corpora-
tion Commission was dealt a severe
blow by the Supreme Court Tuesday
in an opinion deciding the Shawnee
case of the Shawnee Gas and Elec-
tric Co. vs. the State, and holding
the commission to be without juris-
diction to fix rates for gas sold with-
in cities by companies holding fran-
chises from the cities.
It was declared that the city coun-
cil has the sole power to fix the
rates, although the court concedes
that the Legislature has the power,
under the Constitution to confer jur-
isdiction on the commission.
The court found that the Legisla-
ture, thus far, has failed to take this
step, and that under the law as it
now stands the commission lacks
authority. '
Justice Hays wrote the opinion.
The order of the commission estab-
lishing a scale of gas rates for the
city of Shawnee, was reversed and
the appeal dismissed. The syllabus
follows:
"Sec 19, Art. 9 of the Constitution
does not confer upon the Corporation
Commission jurisdiction and power
to prescribe rates for charges for
services to be rendered by a gas ]
company wholly within the limits of j
a city in furnishing gas under a.
franchise granted by the city under
Sec 693, Comp. Laws, 1909, which'
confers upon the council of such city
the right to regulate by ordinance
the charge for such services.
INTEREST BEING
MAINTAINED !N
The co«i of living reduced by buy-
ing your meat at Graf's Meat Mar-
ket, 124 North Broadway Open for
business Sept. 30. 28-4t
Our Record
We have always kept faith
with our depositors and custo-
mers. We have avoided doubt-
ful and speculative enterprises.
We have shunned speculation
as you would a plagrue. We
are trying to see how good we
can make this bauk, rather
than how BIG.
The accounts of people look-
ing for a safe bank are in-
vited.
Officers s
W. S. Search, President.
C. D. Rorer, Vice-President.
B. B. Brundage, Cashier.
C. G Witte, Asst. Cashier.
SECURITY STATE BANK
UNDER GUARANTY LAW.
FAMILY IS AFFLICTED
WITH TYPHOID FEVER
One Head and Six Others in a Criti-
cal Condition.
Jamos Macon died yesterday at his
home thirteen miles northeast of
Shawnee of typhoid fever. His fu-
neral was held today at the home
and interment was in the Neal ceme*
tery.
Six other members of the Macon
family are critically ill of typhoid.
Prejritt's Preaching and Rldenour's
Singing Strong Drawing
Cards.
Ae interest In the revival at the
First Christian Church has not
abated. A large audience was pres-
ent last night to hear Mr/ Prewitt in
his sermon on "The Operation of the
Holy Spirit." In discussing a theme
of this nature, the teacher of Scrip-
ture has to avoid speculation and give
statements from the Bible. The spec^
ulation of one is as godfl as that of
another, and it is not speculation
that the inquirer wants, but assur-,
ance. The people listened with in-
terest to^ihe discussion of each prop-
osition as it was elucidated by the
Word. There was one added to the
church at the close of the sermon.
Professor Ridenour contributed val-
uable assistance, as usual, by his
solo work and in the leading of the
chorus. Such favorable impressions
have many of his solos made that he
is constantly being asked to repeat
them. Last night he sang and illus-
trated "Tell Mother I'll Be There."
During this song the invitation was
extended and it was evident that the
appeal was .strong.
Next Sunday will be "Mother's
Day" in the Bible School. The high-
est attendance attained in the school
in a year and a half Is expected on
this day.
The theme for discourse tonight
will be "A Good Man Converted." By
request of a number out of the
church, Mr. Ridenour will sing and
illustrate again the song "Where Is
My Wandering Boy Tonight."
Everybody invited and welcome.
IS (MED TODAY
If PAYS WELL iLiTTLE BUSINESS
TO ADVERTISE IN AT COUNCIL SESSION
THE SHAWNEE NEWS TUESDAY EVENING
NO STRIKE IS
EXPECTED AT
Thousand** Are Out After (lamr, Provident Association Delighted with
ItesultN Obtained in Each
and Every Cose.
Complaint Against Fireman is DIs-;
missed—Protest Against
Sewer Filed.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Caldwell of the
Shawnee Provident Association are! Council Tuesday evening, four mem-
members were present—Hickey of the
First Ward, Pelphrey of the Second,
Harris of the Fifth, and Graham of
the Sixth. Those absent wore Farris
of the Third and Potts of the Fourth.
Little business of any importance
was transacted.
The estimate of the city engineer
on the sewer completed was ac-
cepted and a contract wafc ordered
Fdneral of Bertie Arnold.
The funeral of Bertie Arnold, the
little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.
W. Arnold, was held at the home
west of Shawnee Tuesday afternoon.
Interment was iu the Mission ceme-
tery. The little child died from the
effects of an injury received several
weeks ago from being kicked by a
horse.
Engineers' Wives Entertain.
The woman's auxiliary to the Or-
der of Locomotive Engineers will en-
tertain this evening in honor of Mrs.
Oland, inspector of the organization,
j and other officers from Oklahoma
City.
COURT IS LENINENT
WITH THIS JUROR
')
Endorse University.
The Retail Merchants' Association
at a meeting held last night strongly
indorsed the Baptist University and
recommended that all members of
the association purchase as many lots
as possible in the Baptist University
Addition. The resolution will be pub-
lished in full tomorrow.
Alex Canatser Given 48 Honrs In Jail
for Reporting Drunk.
Because he was drunk when he re-
ported for jury service, Alex Canat-
ser of Romulus was sent to Jail for
forty-eight hours by Judge Wilson.
Canatser is said to have been under
the Influence of liquor when he reg
istered yesterday. When he was
finally called he failed to respond
and the court issued an attachment
for him. The sentence followed.
Large and Small—Shawnee
Men Hunt Deer.
Seventyrfive thousand hunters will
take the field in Oklahoma Wednes-
day, Judging by tho more than 80,000' firm believers in the value of The
hunters' licenses issued by State Fish ' Shawnee News as an advertising
and Game Warden Doolin's depart-j medium. In every case where they
ment during the past few weeks, in have advertised through The News,'
anticipation of the open 6oason on | whether it be for donations of old
quail, wild turkey and deer, which clothes, parents for a motherless
begins one-half hour before sunrise child, a home for an orphan or a
and continues for one month or long- tract of land for a rescue home and
er, according to the class of game, j orphanage. In all cases the response
For weeks there has been an enor-. has been immediate and sure.
mous demand for the licenses, and j of two of the most recent cases, 'made with tho Western Pavihg Co.,
during the past few days, when the one iias already been noted. This,Which concern is now putting in
demand grew extremily heavy, See-; was the donation of a lot in response! laterals here, for the fifteen more
retary Don Lawheadjhas been kept to an appeal published in a recent j blocks. The contract was let after
busy issuing books of| blank licenses., i8SU6 cf The News. The second was, block 8 of the North Park Addition,
Presses were kept busy one night to the little want ad placed In The in which Mayor Martin lives, was
supply the demand. # ] News several days ago, asking for alcut out| upon a protest being filed
Of the more than 80,0G0 licenses home for a 15-year-old child. A re- |jy property owners. Consequently,
the greater number were issued i<>Sponse to the ad was received the the mayor will have to move or else
Oklahoma hunters, while 120 went to 8ame evening the ad appeared in do without sewer service for a while
prominent sportsmen outside of the ^he News, and the child now has a iongor
State, and four to aliens. Non-resi-1 happy home.
dent licenses were issued to parties J
from Bentonville, Fayetteville and j
other points in Arkansas; Independ- D HDD IT P! I DC
ence, Parsons, Coffeyville and other* ||nDDM uLllflDJ
At the regular session of the City Me"JDfla™ That Slnrif A" A"
Made of Whole Cloth News-
paper Talk.
Local shopmen who have been In-
terviewed relative to the probability
of a strike at the Rock Island shops,
assert positively that so far as they
know no such act is contemplated.
The stories regarding their demands,
they claim, are all made of whole
cloth, being merely newspaper talk.
They further declare that they have
no thought of demanding more pay,
but do doBlre an improvement in
working conditions.
JAILROAD STRIKE IS
BECOMING SERIOUS
Kansas towns; Denison, Fort Worth,
Houston and Dallas, Tex.; St. Louis,
Kansas City and many of the larger
cities of the country.
Many parties of sportsmen have
gone to the mountainous regions of
the State for deer and turkey, but
the greater part of the army will
spread over the counties where quail
is abundant, and the slaughter of the
birds during tho coming weeks will
be enormous.
In addition to quail, turkey and
deer, from which protection is re-
moved this morning, the open sea-
son is still on for wild geese, swan,
duck, crane, snipe, plover, curley and
other shore birds and doves.
There has been but little disposi-
tion on the part of the unsportman-
like to "bunch" on the season and
get in a few shots before it became
legal to take game, owing to the vig-
ilance of the big squad of deputy and
assistant game wardens which War-
den Doolin has had working over the
State.
A number of Shawnee people left
Sunday and Monday in order to be
on the hunting grounds in the Ki-
amichi Mountains when the season
TREE, 0EMU'S
SEP KILLED
Tionesta, Pa., Nov. 15.—The game
season opened in Tidioute Township
with great eclat. The firing of guns
and barking of dogs began at day-
break and continued intermittently
throughout the day. All kinds of
bags are reported, but nothing defin-
ite and trustworthy can be given out
until the official count is known.
However, this much is known: one
hunter took advantage of the occa-
sion to continue the hunt for the
golden fleece, for he shot one of
Obadiah Jessup's prize sheep in the
back with a load of No. 7 shot. Oba-
diah conducts* a small sheep ranch
on the left side of Smoky Hill, as
you go south, and everything but
smokeless powder is barred on that
hill, aB it adds too much to tho
gloom.
A written complaint, against Cap-
tain H. H. McGee of fire station No.
3 on North University avenue by A
W. Jennings had been filed with the
clerk and was read to the council.
Elks to Meet.
Notices of the regular meeting of
the B. P. O. E. this evening have
been sent to members.
Attend Night School W. B. College.
Statement of Condition of the
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SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA
As made t# the Comptroller of the Currency at the clo e of holiness Friday, September 1. 1911.
RESOURCES
Banking House, Furniture and Fixture®..
Stocks and Securities (County Warrant!I.
Demand Loans
.1 64,69&J>6
Cash and Sight Exchange...
i 184S4.il 278,<M9JW
Total
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock
. tso.ooo.oo
Surplus and Undivided Profits
.. 60,880.56 1 GO ,680.66
Circulating Notea
Deposits
Total
The above statemeut Is correct:
JNO. W. JONES, Cashl.r.
Correct—Atteef:
H. T. DOUGLAS.
J. M. AYDELOTTE,
8. C. VINSON, Directors
The Hon. Perry Plnney. tin- Kim
opened. Probably twenty Shawnee gtreet CBUgbl a fln6i
people arc today stalking deer among: ,argp rat)blt w,thout
any intention
those hills. A hundred or more SQ (jQjng Last month he had a
others are on the prairies hunting giazc(j tile drain laid from the eouth-
chickens and quail. i ast corner 0f his cellar to the public
opening along the river bank. Threo
hunters and five dogs chased one
frightened rabbit Into his drain, and
it made Its way through utnil It
reached the millionaire's cellar.
Crawling out into what It believed
to be freedom and security, It placed
j Its forelegs Into a No. 1 jump-trap
that the butler had placed there to
catch a most annoying rat. The cot-
tontail banged the trap around
among the crocks and pans and made
such a din that the butler heard It,
although he was drinking hard cider
In the garage. He hurried Into the
Secures Ills Freedom After Walrlag cellar and slew what he declared was
Preliminary Hearing. ; the biggest Norway rat he ever saw
j in his life.
In the County Court yesterday J. A party oi gas blowers from the
r> r wi i u j i Sharon district came to the village
C. Robinson, under bond on a charge ,
, tavern the day before the opening,
of burglarizing the Katy freight | Th(iy huuted tb,r|y mlnuteB for a
depot and the Wcll8TFargo express saf(, and_ falling to And one, returned
RELEASED ON A
office, and recently rearrested
charged with complicity in the rob-
bing of the McComb State Bank, was
arraigned and pleaded uot guilty. He
waived his preliminary examination
and was admitted to bail in the sum
of $5,000, which he made.
Tex Wallace and John Draiss, also
held for the robbery of the McComb
Bank, was released under bonds of
$1,000 each.
Big liealty Deal.
W. A. Moore and son, J. W. Moore,
of Ennls, Tex., who have been vis-
iting J. P. Moore and family of 114
Rich street, left for their home today.
Through the Pioneer Realty Co. they
purchased 220 acres of land on the
interurban near Benson Park.
\ $25 Reward.
The family of Alfred Robinson, who
wandered from home last Tuesday,
November 7, will pay $25 reward for
information as to his whereabouts.
He was probably lost in the woods
southeast of Shawnee, and would sug-
gest that searchers look there. 13-2t
home, satisfied there was no game in
this township.
One man who lives up Hunter Run-
way and whose wife Is a temperance
woman, came home hallowe'en night
showing signs of having taken part
In the Elm street celebration. He
placed a box of shells on the table
and a package about tho sizo of a
quart bottle deep down among some
old traps in the closet. Early in the
morning he arose, found the shells
and gun all right, but he had the
hunt of his life-time for the package.
He was hunting at 2:30 in tho after-
noon, then gave it up and also his
trip.
That a rabbit can climb a tree was
demonstrated beyond any sort of|
doubt by a party of hunters from
somewhere down in the soft coal
district Their tound ran a rabbit
straight for a solitary tree standing
in a meadow. Bunny climbed to a
height of fifteen feet—but it was in-
side of the tree.
Ed. Note.—The hunting season for
big game opeued today in most of
the atates of the Union.
State Commissioner of Labor Look-
ing: Into Carmen's Sit-
notion.
Muskogee, Okla., Nov. 15.—C. L.
The mayor stated that Jennings and' Dougherty, State commissioner of
Magee had been having some trouble labor, arrived in Muskogee yester-
about McGee's chickens and asked day, accompanied by W. G. Ashton,
Mr. McGee to tell the council about deputy commissioner, to make inves-
It Mr. McGee related that his chick- j tigations in connection with the ar-
ens would sometimes get out and that I rest of guards of the Katy Railroad
son of Mr. Jennings had been Co. over the men employed to take
the places of the striking carmen in
catching them and putting them in a
box. He released them from the box
and a wordy war with Mr. Jennings
followed. Mr. McGee's statement of
the case was substantiated by an eye-
witness and the complaint was tabled
by tho council. Mayor Martin said
in connection with the case that he
had been threatened with a shorten-
ing of his political career unless Mc-
Gee was removed, but that he de-
sired to observe the rules of fair
play in dealing with the situation.
Council adjourned to the next regu-
lar meeting night.
ONE OF SHAWNEES
Glove Factory Now Employing Six-
teen People Will Increase
Force January 1.
One of Shawnee's industries that is
little known is the G. R. Jones Glove
Co. factory at 508 North Beard street.
This factory now employs sixteen
people and after the first of the year
will give employment at least fifty.
Starting in a small way less than
a year ago, Mr. Jones has built up a
fine business—one that promises fair
to soon compare favorably with that
of the Shawnee Garment Manufac-
turing Co.
It Startled the World.
when the astounding claims were
first made for Bucklen's Arnica Salve,
but forty years of wonderful cures
have proved them true, and every-
where it is now known as the best
salve on earth for Burns, Bolls,
Scalds, Sores. Cuts, Bruises, Sprains,
Swellings, Eczema, Chapped hands,
Fever Sores and Piles. Only 25c at
all druggists. •
the shops of the company at this
place, and be present at their trials.
One of the guards, who was ar-
rested Monday on a charge of carry-
ing concealed weapons, W. R. Grace
of Oklahoma City, formerly sheriff of
Pottawatomie County, was rearrested
yesterday morning, charged with vio-
lating the section of the Oklahoma
law relating to armed guards, etc..
and he was bound over in the sum
of $1,000, the bond being made by
the Southern Surety Co. The trial
of the other two men, who were ar-
rested Saturday, was postponed to
await the arrival of Commissioner
Daugherty and will come up today
before Justice Wheeler. The trial
of Grace will be held Thursday be-
fore Justice Bailey, the complaint be-
ing sworn out by Constable Thomp-
son of that court.
WE CAN SHOW RESULTS
in repairing your shoes that will
surprise you—both In the money
you will save and in the appear-
ance of the mended shoe.
HAVE A NEW SOLE
put on, or a new lift on the
heels, a patch on the toe as only
we can patch, and see how fine
and dandy you will be at small
cost to you.
J. 31. TAN TRESS, Prop.
Phone 184. 19 W. Main St.
The Small Depositor is
Welcome at This Bank
A hundred small accounts make a bank stronger than a dozen
large ones. That Is one ot our reasons for urging the man
of limited means to transact his business with ue.
Large accounts are welcome too, for It is our purpose to
Berve ALL the people, whether their business be umall or
large.
THE STATE NATIONAL BANK
SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA
UJIDEIt TUt SUPERVISION OK THE UNITED STATES
HUH;** GOVEKNMENT.
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Barrett, Charles F. The Shawnee News (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 197, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 15, 1911, newspaper, November 15, 1911; Shawnee, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc139030/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.