The Davis News (Davis, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 17, 1908 Page: 3 of 12
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TELLS Of PRISON HUB
KATE BARNARD REPORTS
KANSAS PENITENTIARY
SRYS THAT CONDITIONS ABE VERY
Advocates Abrogation of Contract-
Kansas Prison An Earthly Hell,
According to Oklahoma
Inspector
Guthrie, Okla.—That the law ot
Kansas prohibiting inhuman punish-
ment of prisoners in the penitentiary
is being flagrantly violated and that
Oklahoma prisoners are being sub-
jected to the most hideous treatment
is the charge made in her annual re-
port to the governor by Miss Kate
Barnard, state commissioner of char-
ities and corrections.
She found a "mining hell Inside
the prison gates " men worked to the
limit of endurance and the horrifying
paralyzatlon of prisoners in the "hall
of punishments." She faced the ana-
themas of the prison guards anil talk-
ed in private against the rules to
DIFFERENCES ADJUSTED
Benedict Libel Case Dismissed by
Governor Haskell
Guthrie, Okla—The two charges of
criminal libel against Omer K. Bene-
dict, editor of the Oklahoma City
Times pending in the district court of
Logan county, have been dismissed at
the instigation of Governor C. N. Has-
kell, the complaining witness.
Mr. Benedict's first arrest grew out
of an editorial published in the Times
on August 14.
He was arrested on the 17th, went
to Guthrie, gave bond and returned
home and was arrested the following
day on another charge. The dismis-
sal of the cases was the result of a
secret coference held in this city
last Saturday between the governor
and Mr. Benedict, at which time the
governor is reported to have said that
"it's time the active men of the state
get together and work for Oklahoma."
Mr. Benedict agreed with him and
both men laid aside personal and po-
litical difference and came to an under-
standing in a lew minutes
Lll. STUDENTS STRIKE
DISCHARGE OF COACH PARRY
CREATES DISCORD
OKLAHOMA
NEGRO MURDERER MEETS HIS
DEATH ON SCAFFOLD.
STUDENTS REFUSE TO RETURN TU SCHOOL
Four Hundred of the Five Hundred
Declare Emphatically That No
Cause Existed for the Ac-
tion of Committee
SMILES US RE ASCENDS THE DEATH TRAP
Requests That His Body Be Sent to
His Mother in Texas—Killed
Mrs. Cuppy, Near Shawnee,
February 23.
READY TO PAY CREDITORS
\
MISS KATE BARNARD.
Oklahoma's State Commissioner ot
Charities and Corrections, who re-
ports conditions at Kansas peniten-
tiary as bad, and advises abrogation
of contract.
Oklahoma Central Railway Has Sold
Some Bonds
Guthrie, okla—President Dorset
Carter, of the Oklahoma Central rail-
way company, announces that his com-
pany has just Issued and sold $40,000
worth of receiver's certificates and is
now in a position to pay oft all creill-
at once. Mr. Carter has an-
nounced that he will retire from the
actve management of the road before
Jan. 1, but had made no announcement
in regard to his successor.
"The Oklahoma Central is doing a
good business, which is constantly
growing," said Mr. Carter. "By giving
direct connections with the Santa Fe
anil the Katy we are furnishing to the
shippers of the state contigous to our
line a much improved service, and this
fact is beginning to be appreciated by
our patrons."
CAN ALSO FIX WAGES
Attorney General West Expresses An
Opinion as to Prices and Wages
Guthrie, Okla.—If the corporation
commission can fix priccs it can fix
wages. And since the corporation
commission is vested with the power
to fix prices of public commodities,
under section 13 of the anti-trust act
it has the power to fix the wages of
the employes whose labor is used In
producing or handling such commodi-
ties.
Such is the essence of a statement
by Attorney General West with regard
to an interview given out by Repre-
sentative-elect Sullivan of Leflore
county to the effect that if the price
of coal Is lowered by the corporation
commission the wages of the miners
will be lowered by the mine compa-
nies;
Stillwater, Okla—Emergency action
ot a committee of the board of re-
gents of the state agricultural and
mechanical college, taken in special
session Saturday, December 12, be-
ing unsatisfactory to the students in
that It sustained a former action of
the committee that discharged Coach
w. E. Parry of the college football
team, 400 of the 500 members of the
student body an hour later walked
out on strike.
That the charges made against
Coach Parry that he allowed a dis-
missed student to play in a football
game, are unfounded and that his
action is sustained by the n/.tional
i^ules of the football game Edward
Gallagher, captain of the team, de-
clares, and 400 students unanimously
indorse his position. On the contrary
the students maintain that personal
dislike of Parry by members of the
faculty brought about his enforced
retirement.
The students declare they'll not re-
turn to school until Parry has been
reinstated. President J. H. Connell
has expressed himself as being in
thorough accord with the action of
the committee. Captain Gallagher is
firm in his position.
The outcome is awaited with con
siderable interest.
prisoners, and they told her stories
of cruelty that made her blood chill.
Miss Barnard advocate3 the imme-
diate discontinuance of the contract
with the state of Kansas for the keep-
ing of state convicts and advises that
the legislature make a contract with
congress for the keeping of convicts
at the United States penitentiary at
Leavenworth, of which institution she
speaks in heartiest praise.
The remainder of the report
eludes examinations and criticisms of
the county and municipal jails of
Oklahoma, insane asylums, orphan
hometi, deaf and blind schools, re-
ceiving homes and other sociologi-
cal matters Investigated the last year.
WILL MIKE STRONG APPEAL TO DONGRESS
WATERWAYS CONGRESS ADVO-
CATES $500,000,000 FOR WORK
Amount Asked For Would Put Coun-
try's System of Waterways at
the Head of the List of
Great Systems
Tecumseh, Okla—Sharply at 11:07
Friday forenoon the death trap was
sprung and In eight minutes Dr. By
num of Shawnee pronounced the body
of Will Johnson, murderer, dead.
Twice reprieved from the gallows,
once by the intervention of the gov-
ernor and again by the United States
circuit court, Johnson paid the law's
extreme penalty for the murder of
Mrs. Mary Cuppy, committed near
Shawnee, February 23, last.
Johnson was the coolest, the most
composed man on the scaffold. Send
my body to my old mother in Texas
was the only request he made.
Sheriff Fr^ik Carter of Tillman
county pinioned the doomed man's
limbs. Chief of Police William Sims
of Shawnee placed the mask over his
face, and John Hatfield, the death
watch, -sprang the death trap. Sheriff
Dick Pierce superintendent.
Johnson retired at 11 o'clock tha
night before and slept soundly until
3 o'clock Friday morning, when he
arose, got a drink of water and again
fell asleep. He ate a hearty break-
fast and never forgot to smile.
RELIGIOUS RIOT IN STREETS OF
KANSAS CITY.
TWO DEAD, THREE DYING; OTHERS HURT
Police Reserves Called to Quell Dis-
turbance Met With Hail of Bul-
lets from Crazed Zealots—
Patrolman Killed
May License Liquor
Muskogee, Okla.—Realizing that
the prohibitory law is a dead letter
In this city owing to the virtual im-
possibility of securing convictions for
violation, Mayor Martin and the city
council are considering the adoption
of the high license plan in the city.
At the next meeting of the city
council an ordinance providing a li-
cence of $200 per month for such
places will be introduced.
In the event this policy is adopted
a lively skirmish with the state of-
ficials is anticipated.
Loses Foot From Blood Poison
Chickasha, Okla.—In an effort to
save himself from the evild of blood
poisoning Patrick Teefey, a Pocas-
seat farmer, has gone to Kingston, la.,
for treatment. His right fopt has
"been amputated as the result of a
slight Injury inflicted to that member
a few weeks ago.
New Telegraph Rate.
Guthrie, Okla..—The state corpora-
tion commission has issued an order
countermanding the 25-cent telegraph
rate In the state and Issued a new
order as follows:
"Up to 175 miles, 25 cents: between
175 and 250 miles, 30 cents; over 250
miles, 35 cents day. for ten words; 25
cents night, two cents additional per
word—and one cent night. Order ef-
fective Jan. 1.
Mother Nearly Mad
Muskogee. Okla.—Crazed with grle!
over the disappearance of her five
year old daughter, Mary, Mrs. W. A.
Harris Is at the verge of insanity, her
condition occasioning great alarm
among the attending physicians. Mary-
was last seen In the company of her
father, Mrs. Harris's divorced hus-
band. and the supposition is that he
kidnapped the girl.
Kills Brother During Dispute
Checotah, Okla.—Quarreling about
who should occupy the father's bed af-
ter the lder members of the family
had arisen, Joe Green, the five-year
old son of Postmaster J. A. Green, of
Texanna, a small town near lf re,
shot and Instantly killed his elder
brother, Everett, who refused his
younger brother the coveted bed. The
little fellow's only comment on the
fatal affair was that "Ever'ett had no
business fighting me."
WAYS TO KILL BOLL WEEVIL
Rake Them Out With Chains or Feed
Them to Ants
Washington, D. C—No subject
receiving more "study and earnest ef-
fort by the United States department
of agricul.ure than the improvement
of the cotton industry. This is a mat-
ter of prime interest to Oklahom
for cotton is that state's greater ag-
ricultural product.
A machine for the control of the
boll weevil has been invented and
patented which promises trouble for
that destructive pest. This machine
consists of a series of chains attach-
ed to a light frame in such a way
that when dragged between the rows
the fallen cotton bolls infested with
the weevil are dragged from under
the shade of the plants into the mid-
dle of the rows into the hot sun,
which quickly knls the weevils.
Another very effective way of de-
stroying the weevil has been found
in the introduction of a parasite in
the form of an ant which feeds upon
the weevil and is very destructive to
them. This parasite when colonized
increases in numbers with great rap-
idity.
The department after exhaustive
experimenting has discovered that
cotton planted in the check row sys-
tem makes a larger yield than it does
when planted in the usual drill rows.
This is also important, from the fact
that it decreases the hand labor nev-
essary under the drill system to a
large extent and cheapens the cost of
the growing crop.
Washington, D. C.-Sentiment la fa-
vor of a government bond issue for a
comprehensive improvement of Che
rivers, harbors and canals of the
country to the end that this nation
shall have the greatest system of wa-
terways in the world, gained headway
at the opening session of the annual
meeting of the rivers and harbors
congress.
The scheme contemplates $500,000,-
000 worth of federal bonds for inter-
nal water courses, to be distributed
over a ten-year period, or $50,000,000
annually.
Following the lead of President
Roosevelt and President-elect Taft,
both of whom, before the joint con-
servation meeting advocated the issu-
ance of government bonds for con-
structing permanent public improv
ments, enthusiastic endorsement was
given the proposition at the congress
by Vice-President Fairbanks, Andrew
Carnegie and Joseph E. Ransdell,
The gathering likely will adopt res-
olutions asking congress to authorize
the bonds.
Leading figures in the nation's pub-
lic industrial and commercial life in-
dicated their interest in waterways
improvements by their presence and
participation. The speakers included
Vice President Fairbanks, Andrew
Carnegie, Ambassador Bryce, Seth
Low of New York, Representative
Joseph E. Ransdell. Representative
Champ Clark of Missouri, Governor
George E. Chamberlain of Oregon and
Samuel Gompers.
Lydick Appointed Regent
Governor Haskell has appointed J.
D. Lydick, of Shawnee, a member of
the board of regents to succeed Hon,
J. P. Hickam, Mr. Lydick is a prom-
inent lawyer of Shawnee
CHARLES E. MAGOON,
Governor of Cuba.
The Island executive, who will soon
foe -succeeded by the officials recently
elected, **e is thought much of by
the Cubans.
CANNON IS AGAINST IT
Unalterably Opposed to Financing
Waterways Improvement
Washington, D. C.—Speaker Can-
non made known his unalterable op-
position to the proposition of financ-
ing waterways improvements by the
issuance of government bonds. This
was in an address to the Rivers and
Harbors congress.
He declared that "if perchance it
were possible, the rivers and harbors
committee should report a bill to con-
gress providing that there should be
an i-ssue for the next ten years to
meet the proposed improvement bonds
In the amount of $1,000,000,000. I
would not vote for it."
Speaker Cannon's words cast a
gloom over the congress, as the advo-
cates of the bond issue ha.-l strong
hopes of favorable consideration of
their proposition. Mr. Cannon's atti-
tude is at variance with that held by
Vice President Fairbanks, Andrew
Carnegie and others.
BARS THROWN DOWN
Oil Men Can Hold As Much Land as
They Desire
Lawyer Arrested for Forgery
Sapulpa, Okla.—Edward L. Drake, a
former real estate dealer and lawyer
of Sapulpa, who recently moved to De-
pew, has been arrested at the latter
place on the charge of forgery, and
taken to Muskogee. The charge in-
volves Indian land transactions and
an amount of $2,000.
Girl Dies in Agony
Kingston, Okla.—Bitten on the leg
by a family watch dog that suddenly
became affected with hydrophobia.
Miss Delia Harvey, 17 years old, died
a few hours later in awful agony.
Lydick Named Regent.
GuthTie, Okla.,—Governor Haskell
has appointed J. D. Lydick, a former
Alva Bank Licensed
Guthrie, Okla.—The Alva Security
Bank of Alva, capital $40,000 G. A.
Haroough, president; J. H. Shaefer,
vice president; M. M. Fulkerson, cash-
ier, has been authorized to begin bus-
iness.
Ruef Granted Respite
San Francisco.—Abraham Ruef,
convicted of ofTering a bribe, was
granted a delay of one week, before
receiving sentence. The continuance
of the case until December 19, was
■with the assent of the district attor-
ney's office. Thoms B. Dozier, one
of the lawyers for the defense, based
his petition for a week's respite on
the ground that sufficient time had
not been given the defense to pre-
pare the motions and arguments in
arrest of judgment and for a new
trial.
Violated Separate Coach Law
Muskogee, Okla.—A case that will
test the constitutionality of the sep-
arate coach law is to he taken to the
United States supreme cour from Mus-
kogee. J. B. Culley, a negro, who re-
cenly refused to heed the law, was
fined $<,0 and costs. His attorney
will appeal the case.
Washington, D. C.—Announcement
was made at the department of inte-
rior that the regulations fiixng the
maximum acreage that may be held
by one oil company at 4,800 acres ap-
plies only to restricted Indian lands.
This throws the bars down to oil op-
erators. It means they may hold 4,800
acres of restricted land and all the un-
restricted they can lease.
RUEF DECLARDED GUILTY
Jury Returns Verdict After a Day
of Deliberation
San Francisco.—Abraham Ruef, for-
mer political boss of San Francisco,
was convicted of bribery, 'me ver-
dict was returned after the delibera-
tions of the jury had been prolonged
throughout a period of 24 hours. The
warnings of Judge William P. Law lor
and the vigilance of the police checked
all attempted demonstration. The
has been in progress for 106 days.
Holdenville to Vote Bonds
Holdenville, Okla.—Holdenville pro-
poses to vote $185,000 in bonds at an
early date for municipal and school
improvements. Of this amount $100,-
000 will be used in extending the
water and sewer systems, $10,000 will
he expended in building a city hall,
$35,000 will go into a scnool building,
and the remainder will be used in
street improvements. The city's
present water system was installed at
a cost of about $25,000.
Wallace Quits Criminal Bench
Jefferson City, Mo.—Governor Folk
has received the resignation of Judge
William H. Wallace of tho criminal
court of Kansas City. The judge's
resignation follows quo warranto pro-
ceedings Instituted by Attorney Gen-
eral ^Hadley. Judge Wallace's com-
mission as judge of the criminal court
of Kansas City expired on November
3. At the regular election his succes-
sor was named, but the judge refused
to vacate the bench.
Judge Wallace gained national fame
during his term of office as criminal
judge by his campaign against Sunday
theaters.
Kansas City, Mo—In the very shad-
ow of the city hall in this city and
less than a half mile from the busi-
ness center a riot in which' religious
fanatics and the police were the parti-
cipants and in which a hundred shots
were fired occurred and resulted in
the death of a policeman and a 13-
ear old girl, fatal injury to three
and slight injuries to two other per-
sons.
The dead: Albe'rt O. Dalbow, a po-
liceman; Lola Pratt, 13-year old
daughter of one of the religious riot-
ers.
The fatally wounded: James Sharp^
known as Adam God, a street preach-
Michael Mullane, patrolman; Pat-
rick Clark, a police sergeant.
Slightly injured: Harry E. Stege,
police lieutenant; George M. Holt, a
probation officer.
Sergeant Clark is reported to be at
the point of death, while Patrolman
Mullane Is not expected to live.
The trouble occurred at 4 o'clock in
the afternoon when the streets were
crowded with persons who daily fre-
quent the busy market and city hall
district. While the trouble was in
progress the participants traversed an
entire block, the final stages of the
fight being enacted directly across the
street from an entrance to the police
station.
George M. Holt, probation officer of
the juvenile court, and a pioneer in
the work of saving boys from the
streets of this city, went to Fifth and
Main street to investigate a case of
alleged abduction which had been re-
ported to him. Near that street cor-
ner he came upon Sharp, who sur-
rounded by his companions, was ex-
horting a crowd of street loafers.
With Sharp were A. J. Selzer, a wo-
man and five children. The children
ranged in ages from 14 to 3 years.
The officer's suspicions were arous-
ed by the manner in which the woman
attempted to secure money contribu-
tions from the crowd and he decided
that she and her male companions
were not proper persons to have the
custody of young children.
Officer Holt then accosted the wo-
man and inquired as to the identity
of the children. The woman immedi-
ately assumed an antagonistic attitude
and replied sharply that the officer
had "better attend to his own busi-
ness." But the officer persevered in
his inquiries when "Adam God,' whose
long flowing white beard and hair
gave him the appearance of a patri-
arch, threatened the officer with phy-
sical violence. Holt was struck by
Adam God with a revolver, and he
called police reserves. Their arrival
put the religionists in a fenzy and the
rioting began, with the result as at
first stated.
BICYCLE RIDER TAKES
PLUNGE THROUGH KIM
L'-NDS IN LAP OF WOMAN EAT-
ING DINNER, CAUSING GREAT
EXCITEMENT.
Denver.—Diners in the Indian room
of the Savoy were almost thrown into
a panic when a man plunged head-
long through one of the heavy plate
glass windows and landed squarely in
the lap of Mrs. R. A. Kincaid, who
was sitting with her husband at a
table near the window. The man was
Dave Thompson, an employe of the
hotel, and as the result of his strange
experience, is now lying at the coun-
ty hospital.
While riding a wheel with a coaster
brake down Seventeenth avenue
Thompson tried to turn into the alley
between the Shirley and the Savoy,
BIG SUM FOR OKLAHOMA
To Give Away Indian Schools
Washington.—Indian Commissioner
Francis E. Luepp is seeking some way
for the transfer of the non-reservation
Indian schools to the state. It Is well
known that the Indian commissioner
has been trying to abolish Carlisle for
two years. If he succeeds in getting
rid of the non-reservation schools, the
Indian academy at Chilocco will fall to
Oklahoma as a Christmas gift.
The Body of a Man Shot Through
the Air.
The brake refused to work and, los-
ing control of the wheel, lie was
thrown through the window of the
Savoy facing Seventeenth avenue near
the alley. It was the Indian room that
Thompson had chosen for his plunge.
It was crowded, every table being tak-
en, when he made his sensational ap-
pearance. The astonished diners
heard the crash of the glass and sat
spellbound as through the shower of
fragments from it they saw the body
of a man shooting through the air. ^ It
went over the table where the Kin-
caids were dining, taking the table
cloth covered with dishes with it, and,
before Mrs. Kincaid knew what had
happened, Thompson fell into her lap.
She screamed with fright. The other
v*>men in the room echoed her cries
and pandemonium reigned. Broken
glass and blood from Thompson s
wounds went flying everywhere and
added to the excitement.
Policemen, waiters, chambermaids,
bellboys, clerks and guests of the hos-
telry came running into the room, at-
tracted by the uproar. And in the
meantime, dazed and half unconscious,
Thompson lay in Mrs. Kincaid s lap.
Mr. Kincaid was the first to recover
his composure. He assisted Thomp-
son to his feet, and seeing that the
man was suffering called others to
help carry him to his automobile out-
side. With Mrs. Kincaid he took the
injured man in the machine to the
county hospital. There an examina-
tion revealed that Thompson had sus-
tained severe cuts about the body and
severed an artery in his right shoul-
der. He is not thought to be seriously
injured.
The wheel was found outside the no-
tel entirely demolished.
MODERN ENOCH ARDEN.
Warning by Governor
Guthrie, Okla.—Governor Haskell
has addresses a letter to county at-
torneys of the slate warning them to
member of tho Oklahoma legislature, | a(jvj6e COunty commissioners, town-
as a member of the board of regents j ghlp boards an(] school district hoards
of the state university, succeeding H. j not (Q exceelj the legal limit In tha
O. Rltenhouse of Chandler, resigned. tax lev-y
West Will Appeal
Guthrie, Okla.—Attorney General
West will within tho next week take
to the supreme court of the United
States his fight to maintain the Inde-
pendence of his office
New Bank at Blackwell
Blackwell, Okla.—Blackwell has a
bank. It Is the State Guaranty bank,
capital stock $25,000; W. A. Hays,
president; L. H. Thompson, vice-pres-
ident; E. A. Lentz, cashier.
Corn Stalk Piper
Wellston, Okla.—The commercial
club of this city Is waiting for the re-
port of the United States government
before Installing the machinery of a
small corn stalk paper mill. The mill
•will be a co-operative enterprise and
will have stock holders all over the
county.
Enid, Okla.—Robert Overstreet,
aged 17 years, whose home Is near
Covington, was Instantly killed seven
miles northeast of Helena while
working with a corn shelling outfit.
Company is After Salt
Crekola, Okla.—The American Salt
company has representatives In Mus-
kogee who are negotiating a deal by
which the company securc-4 an option
upon the wells and whatever salt
there may be found at Crekola.
Seat Remains at Sulphur
Sulphur, Okla.—Sulphur will remain
the county seat of Murray county. By
a majority of 610 the voters decided
this. Sulphur received 1,436 votes and
Davis 926. The city of Sulphur cast
722 votes and the city of avis 301.
Dick Takes Charge
McAlester, Okla.—R. W. Dick, of
Ardmore, recently appointed prison
superintendent to succeed C. N. Coles,
deceased, has arrived here with his
wife and taken charge of the prison.
Oklahoma Ife Files Articles
Guthrie, Okla.—Tho Oklahoma IJfo
Im:uranco company of Oklahoma City,
with a capital stock of $100,000 has
filed articles of Incorporation with ahe
secretary of state.
Simon's Government Not Recognized
Washington—At a recent meeting
of the diplomatic corps at Port an
Prince, Haytl, the decision was ar-
rived at that It was not opportune at
this time to have the governments
represented formally recognize the
administration of General Simon, for
the reason that this action, perhaps,
would give him an advantage over his
competitors In the election for piesl-
dont. Meantime General Simon's
government, being de facto, the us-
ual diplomatic relations are held with
It.
More Wool Mills Resume
Boston, Mass.—The American Wool
company, which owns seventy-five
mills In New England and New York
state, has increased Its operations so
that now but 35 per cent of tho ma-
chinery is idle.
Secretary Corteiyou Urges Large Ap-
propriations for State
Washington—Secretary Corteiyou,
of the treasury department, has Includ-
ed the following items of interest to
Oklahoma in the Indian budget for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1910:
Dawes commission, Muskogee, $140,-
000. Support and maintenance of the
schools in Indian Territory, $300,000. j
Per capita payment to Semlnoles,
$570,000.
Per capita payments to Sac and
Foxes, $1,000,000.
Removal ot restrictions. $33,000. i
Removal of intruders, $17,000 .
Support and
agent, $90,000. _ j
New Lands Opened
Topeka, Kan.—UndeT the ruling of
Attorney General Jackson that certain
school land leases In Kansas are Inva-
lid estimate's have been prepared
which show that the new ruling opens
up 120,000 acres of land for homestead-
ers Some of this land Is valued as
high as $35 per acre. The attorney
general's ruling is that leases extend-
ing over a period of five years without
a revaluation of the land are void.
Donates to Colored School
Louisville, Ky.—Options are said to
have been secured on tracts of land
near Orell, 14 miles from Louisville,
to establish a colored school similar
. ji . t„. 1 tn those at Tuskegee and Hampton,
maintenance of distr adjacent fund of $400,000 Is needed
,i""1 ' _ , , 1 tn farrv on the work. Of this sum An-
Leaslng mineral lands. Creeks and | ^ Carnegle ha3 hedged $200,000.
Cherokees, $30,000.
Support and maintenance of Chlloc- ;
school. $120 000.
Road Pay. It. Taxes
Tuha,Okla.—The tax books In the
county treasurer's office were thrown
open December 12, and the first day's
receipts amounted to more than $6,-
000. The Midland Valley railroad
paid half its taxes, which amounted
to $5,71. ii.
Graham as the ead
Guthrie, Okla.—State Senator Clint
Graham, of Marietta, seems the fav-
orite In the race for president pro
tem of the state senate,
Denied Trial by Jury
New York.—Katnerlne Clemmons
Gould was denied in the appellate di-
vision of the supreme court a trial by
Jury in her action for divorce from
Howard Gould.
Hustling for Railroads
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Indian, to Go Back on Roll. Aged Couple Asphyxiated
Washington, D. C.—The department Port Huron. Mich.—After living to-
of justice has decided that 1,500 In- pether for over 60 years, Mr. and Mrs.
dlansstrlcken from rolls of the five civ- jobn Paul, of Sarina, Ont., just across
ed tribes by Secretary Hitchcock 1 lhe st, cia|r river from this city, were
the da. he retired, must be reinstated i a8phyxlated in their home. They were
and the roll has been ordered made to | 86 and 75 years old, respectively.
that end
Dies of Apoplexy
Milwaukee, Wis.—Dr. William
Mackie, one of the best known physi-
Davenport Only Absent One
Washington—All members of the
Oklahoma delegation, except Repre-
sentative James S. Davenport of the
third district, were In their seats at
the opening of congress.
Four Person. Perish.
Scranton, Pa.,—Four persons perish
ed In flames which, starting from an
overheatec'. kitchen stove, burned tho
Shapiro block in Princeburg. The
dead: Abraham Shapiro, his son Ar-
thur and daughter Anna, and his moth
er-ln-law, Mrs. Sarah Blatskl.
Chickasha, Okla.,—Plans for a $35-
000 high school building have been
made at Marlow, and work will begin
as soon as the contract ( can be
awarded.
Bartlesville'. New Bank
Bartlesville, Okla.—The Bartlesville
State Bank has been chartered. Cap-
ital stock $25,000; E. G. Lewis, presi-
dent; G. W. Lewis, vice-president; A.
S. Lvwls, cashier.
Pathetic Story Unfolded by Prie.t or
Philippine War Veteran.
Corvallis, Ore.—Revelation that
George McDonald, or Morgan, who
died at the city jail recently, was an-
other Enoch Arden, with an unusual-
ly pathetic career, has come to light
In a dispatch from San Francisco.
The dispatch says McDonald went
to the Philippines during the war
days, leaving a wife and daughter. Aft-
er the war he returned to find hi3 wife
married to another man, having re-
ceived a report he had been killed.
No message preceded him and his ar-
rival was not made known to the wom-
an. He came on north to Oregon,
keeping his secret and his sorrow. He
was at Eugene and Springfield, then
came to Corvallis, where his death
took place In the city jail, following
a debauch probably Induced by his
trouble.
He had told Father Butler of Cor-
vallis that he was married by Rev.
Father Netterville, at St. Dominic's
church, San Francisco, and that his
wife's second marriage was performed
by Father Nugent of St. Rose's church,
San Francisco. Coroner M. S. Boveo
has communicated with Father Nu-
gent to help locate the dead man's
daughter.
Man Whirl, on Shaft Alive.
Shenandoah, Pa —In the act of oil-
ing machinery at Ellangowan colliery,
John Sands was caught In a shafting
at 140 revolutions a minute.
He was whirled around several
times, when every stitch of his cloth-
ing was torn from his body, and then
he was hurled 20 feet, sustaining a
broken arm, dislocating both shoul-
ders and being badly cut and bruised,
but he will recover.
clans ot the west, suddenly died of
apoplexy. Up to the moment he was
stricken he seemed In excellent health.
Planning Higher Freight Rates
Topeka, Kan.—A substantial in-
crease In freight rates shortly will be
announced by the nevenil western
roads. The Atchison, Topeka & San-
ta Fe general freight offices in Tope-
ka have been working on the new
Washington, D. C.-Unlted States schedules for several weeks with the
S nator T P. Gore, introduced by Sen- expectation of having them completed
a or Culbertson, of Texas, was admit-1 about January 1.
t, | to practice In the United States ^ _ 0hio County Gciea Dry
a; ireme court. j c0iumbus. Ohio—Licking county
'voryone
should like bis kin, but | voted dry by 700, doing away with 84
ev ryone does not.
saloons.
Tries to Eat Nine Pounds of Spaghetti
Memphis, Tenn.—In an effort to
consume three pounds of spaghetti,
which, when cooked, weighed nearly
nine pounds, Frank Marino lost a wa-
ger and caused friends who backod
him with hundreds of dollars to lose
their money. The doctors who at-
tended him say he may not recover
from the effects of overcrowing his
stomach.
Think It Over.
She—If a man loves his wife as
much as she loves him, he will stop
wasting his money on cigars if she
asks him.
he—Yes, but if his wife Iovcb him
as much as she ought to love a man
who loves her enough to stop it If sh«
asks him, she won't ask him.
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