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VOLUME VIII.
BARTLESVILLE, OKLAHOMA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,
>UMBER 18.
killing justified::
SNEED DECLARES BOYUE WROTE
TO WIFE AFTER RECONCILIATION
Views MOTHER IS ILL
SLAYER'S MATE RESPONSIBLE
FOR DOMESTIC DRAMA.
Prisoner Refuses to Disclose .Name of
Man With Him in Cottage
Shortly Before Tragedy.
Amarillo, Tex., Sept. 17.—John Bcal
Sneed, who shot, and killed A1 G.
Boyee on the streets here Saturday
afternoon, broke his silence late yes-
terday in the Potter county jail. His
statement was made just as the fun-
eral of young Boyce was being held.
Sneed between cigarette puffs, calmly
declared:
"There is no use in me discussing
the shooting itself. The public
knows all regarding that. When my
trial for killing Boyce is held I am
positive that the story I shall tell will
win me both the acquittal of the jury
and the public. It will win me sym-
pathy. It is I who have suffered
most. My act was justifiable."
The motive which pV-ompted Sneed
to lie in wail: for and kill Boyce be-
came known yesterday' through his
attorneys; Walter Scott and W. P. Mc-;
Lean. Letters sent, they allege, by
Boyce from his Canadian ranch to
Mrs. Lena Sneed in an effort to win
her away from Sneed a second time
causetTTfie banker to plot against the
life of the young ranchman.
Fearing, it is claimed, that Boyce
again would prevail upon his wife to
desert him, Sneed cautiously planned
every detail of the assassination.
The Potter county grand jury yes-
terday morning began an investiga-
tion of thp. killing and summoned
Sneed before it.
The Rey. Ernest E. Robinson, pas-
tor of the First Methodist church, also
was called before the grand jury. Rob-
inson had passed Boyce only a minute
before he was shot down, and was
the first to reach his side.
The surveillance of members of the
Boyce and Sneed families, to prevent
any outbreak, continues today, but
there has been no open show of hos-
tility.
DEPUTY SHERIFF BE ti RAW, ♦
WHO ARRESTED LAWYER ♦
♦ B. W. GIBSON FOR MURDER. ♦
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SHERIFF
DE. GRAW
BEING HELD IN CONNECTION
WITH COPAN HOBBIItY.
APPREHENDED YESTERDAY
CHARLES KILLION AND TIM HAR-
NETT ARE LOCKED UP.
Taken Into Custody Yesterday. Post-
office Inspectors Are Making
Investigation.
ROB TRAIN
TWO 11 Kill WAYM VN HELD UP
TRAIN ON SOUTHERN.
MAIL SACKS WERE LOOTED
MAIL CLERKS BOUND: ONE FOHU
ED TO OPEN SACKS.
With Pistols Drawn They Flee From
Train-Posse Was Formed But
the Robbers Escape.
THESTDEfiT TAFT EAT OF HIS
A UJVT DELIA 'S FAMOUS A VPLE TIES
O.N HIS FIFTy-FIFTH HIH THDA y
Middletown, N. Y„ Sept. 17.—Dep-
uty Sheriff Willis C. DeGraw of Or-
ange county served the warrant on
Burton W. Gibson which accused the
Xew York lawyer of the murder of
Mrs. Rosa Szabo. Gibson, who pro-
tested his innocence, was a willing
prisoner and gave the law officer no
trouble.
MUST GOME THROUGH
Taxpayers Must Pay the Eighteen
Per Cent Penalty.
Fearfrtg that a 'penalty of eighteen
per cfSnt would be assessed on paving
taxes if they became delinquent, caus-
ed a rush to the office of the city
clerk during the closing days before
the penalty was tacked on. The taxes
remaining unpaid are now subject to
a penalty. The amount is $14,000, ac-
cording to the statement of City
Clerk Jones.
Approximately $33,000 has been
paid into the city treasury in paving
taxes. A penalty of eighteen per cent
will be charged in the collection of
the taxes remaining unpaid.
WILSON I> IOWA.
Democratic Nominee Doing Marathon
Stunts In West.
Sioux City, la. Sept. tfi—Gov. Wood-
row Wilson arrived here this morn-
ing making several speeches, most
important of which is an address to
be delivered at the interstate fair.
Shot Her Fathers Is Acquitted.
Antlers, Okla., Sept. 17.—Carrie
Baker, the 18-year-old girl accused
of killing her father last summer,
was acquitted in district court of the
charge, self-defense being the plea.
Miss Baker shot down the father in
the presence of other children when
he started to attack her, according to
her testimony. Many neighbors tes-
tified that Baker was in the habit of
getting drunk and abusing the girl.
A quarrel over a young man with
whom the girl had been keeping com-
pany precipitated the trouble which
resulted in the father's death, the girl
shooting him with a shotgun.
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ATTORNEY MAY DIE FROM BUL-
LET WOUNDS IN BODY.
Highwayman Held Up Electric Car
and Lieutenant Was Shot in
Struggle With Desperado.
San Mateo, Calif.. Sept. 17.—Charles
M. Kirkbride, an attorney and lieut-
enant of the Eleventh company coast
artillery reserves, known as the "mil-
lionaire company," was shot and pro-
bably fatally wounded today by a
highwayman who held up and robbed
the passengers on two cars of the
electric line between here and San
Francisco. Kirkbride grappled with
the robber and received a bullet in
his body. The bandit escaped and is
being pursued by a posse.
TO RUILD LONG
Lakes to the Gulf Road Is To Be
Made a Reality.
Belleville, Kas., Sept. 17.—Promo-
ters of the Winnipeg to the Gulf road
known as the Meridian highway,
reached here this afternoon on a tour
of inspection, which will take them
over the entire route. With the party
are John Michelson of Newton, Kas.,
secretary of the Winnipeg to the Gulf
Highway association, and several
other Canadian and American offi-
cials of the expedition are scheduled
to pass through Salina and Newton
today, entering Oklahoma tomorrow.
The entire road, which is 1850 mileB
Two men are locked up in the coun-
ty jail on suspicion of having blown
the safe in the postoffice at Copan
early yesterday morning. Charles
Killion and Tim Barnett were arrest-
ed yesterday and today were closely
questioned by two postoffice inspec-
tors who reached here last, night to
make an investigation of the robbery.
Killion was taken into custody near
Copan yesterday by Deputy Sheriff
Oriff Graham as he was driving along
the road in an automobile leading to
Caney. Barnett was arrested in Bar-
tlesville last night as lie was about to
board a train for Copan. Both mien
express their innocence and say they
will be able to furnish an alibi when
the proper time comes. Meanwhile
the two men are languishing in jail
pending the result of the investiga-
tion being conducted by postoffice in-
spectors. Both men are employed In
the oil fields in this section.
The safe in the postoffice was
blown open shortly after 2 o'clock
Monday morning. A heavy charge of
glycerine blew the door of the safe
from its hinges. Just what amount of
money the yeggmen made away with
is not known. T. F. Tate, in whose
store the postoffice is located, had a
sum of money in the safe. Just what
amount of money belonged £o the
government is not known as Postmas-
ter Sparks was absent from the city
at the time of the robbery.
Bloodhounds were taken to Copan
yesterday and were placed on a trail
that lead from a rear door to the of-
fice. The trail lead northward out of
Copan. It was late in the afternoon
when Killion was taken into custody
near where the dogs were following
the tfrail. Whether or not the offi-
cers will secure enough evidence
against the men to hold them for the
robbery is not known. That the men
are being held on suspicion was the
only information that could be learn-
ed today from the officers in charge
of the case.
Cliatanooga, Tenn.. Sept.. 17—Two
masked highwaymen held up the
"Memphis Special" west bound on the
southern railway early today near
Stevenson, Ala. Tue ir.ail ear wa.i
looted but the amount secured by the
men is unknown. The highwaymen
boarded the train at Stevenson and
covered the four clerks with pistols,
three of whom were bound, the fourth
being ordered to open all sacks of
registered mail. A posse is pursu-
ing the robbers.
The holdup occurred at a lonely
spot near a sharp curve. The mail
tclerks were not aware of the holdup
■ until the two masked highwaymen en-
jtere'd the mail car and ordered them
.to throw up their hands. Wjtile one
| held a pistol pointed at the fMir clerks
(the other bound three of them. The
j fourth clerk was ordered to open the
registered mail sacks and was told
to "hurry."
After much of ,the registered mail
was stolen the two highwaymen back-
ed from the train,'^nd>disappeared in
the swamps. Bloodhounds have been
taken to the scene of the holdup and
placed on the trial of the highway-
men.
VOTE A CAPITAL SITE
Guthrie Gives Suitable Building and
Large Tract of Land.
Guthrie, Okla., Sept. 17.—(Special)
—By a vote of 1559 to 9 Guthrie vot-
ed today to transfer free to the state
a capitol building here and a four-
teen acre campus surrounding it,
worth half a million dollars, for use
for state capitol purposes. This is the
same property used before by the
state, the rent being free, for capitol
purposes.
The deed will be issued immediate-
ly and placed in Governor Crnce's
in length, has been mapped out and , hantl8 A1] 8treets fading to and sur
logged. Two million dollars' worth r0Unding the property are paved
of bonds have been voted for the con-    
struction of sections of it.
HARVESTER MEN ON BRILL
Federal Government Seeks to Dis-
solve Corporation.
Chicago, Sept. 17.—Alexander Legg,
assistant general manager of the In-
ternational Harvester company, was
the first witness today in the govern-
ment's suit to dissolve this corpora*
tion. Others scheduled to appear are
Wm. M. Gale and E. N. Wood, assist-
ant secretaries.
We have the glass for those broken
winflows. Phone 521 and we will fix
them. Cresent Plaining Mill.
OEATH PENALTYJFOR OFFICER
Federal Officer to Forfeit Life for
Cowardice.
Douglas, Ariz., Sept. 17.—Tbf> Mex-
ican federal officer responsible for
holding back the re-enforcements for
El Tigre while the rebels, under Gen-
eral Salazar were attacking the town,
■Will be shot for cowardice, according
to General Sanjines, commanding the
federal forces. The general made
this statement this morning When in-
formed that the federals had not at-
tacked, though they were within hear-
ing of the battle. A reward of $15,-
000 is offered for the recovery of the
enid stolen bv the rebels.
WOULD OUST MAYOR
Of CofftfVville If He Does Not Dis-
charge Police Force.
Hoffeyville, Kas., Sept. 17.—Mayor
C. E. Rice was summoned to Inde-
pendence, Kas., yesterday afternoon
by Hal Clark, county attorney, and
requited that he immediately dis-
charge the entire police force of Cof-
fevyille under pain of ouster proceed-
ings being instituted against him in
the supreme court. The mayor, af-
ter some consideration, refused to do
80.
The request of County Attorney
Clark and the threatened ouster pro-
ceedings against the mayor is the out-
growth of an appointment of Attor-
ney Charles Bucher as an assistant
attorney general for this county and
the court of* inquiry which has been
held here during the past two weeks.
While Mr. Bucher has not personally
handled the inquiry he has directed
the proceedings through the county
attorney and his two deputy sheriffs,
"Bun" Hanlon and Ed Jackson.
The nature of the evidence secured
at the inquiry has not been made pub-
lic, but it is claimed that sufficient
proof of misconduct and dereliction
of duty on the part of members of the
police force was obtained to warrant
the removal of the entire force from
the chief down. Mayor Rice insists
that he has no knowledge of any mis-
conduct or neglect of duty on the part
of any member of the police dapart-
ment and positively refuses to remove
any of the men until such proof is
furnished him.
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PRESIDENT TAFT AND'XUNTDELIA*
(g by AMEOICAN pRess ^yyoctftTioN
will lease osage
TRACT TO BE OPENED UP
NOVEMBER 2.
HUNDRED THOUSAND ACRES
THIS AMOUNT SUBJECT TO LE VSE
ON THAT DATE.
Approximately *00,IMO Acres of Oil
ami (ins Lands to Be Leased
At Indian Agency.
Washington, D. C., -? pt 17.-—Bids
for leases upon one hundred thousand
acres of oil and gas lands belonging
to the Osage Indians are to.be opened
November 2 at the Osage Indian ag-
ency In Pawhuska. This Is the first
of eight hundred thousand acres of
Osage oil land subject to lease to be
offered to the public.
This will open a vast territory
which heretofore was not subject to
lease. All of it is believed to be val-
uable in oil and other minerals and
wells drilled here will be watched
with much interest by oil people. The
Indian agency at Pawhuska Is already
flooded with bids on this land from
every part of the world.
BRIOE WAS KIDNAPPED
V t
first state election he managed the
nation for a number of years. In the
campaign ot' C. N. Haskell'in the race
for governor, and (luring the first ad-
ministration Y'as attached to the state
school land department, from iwhere
he went to the election board. In the
last primary election Gordon was de-
feated for the ^Democratic nomination
for the state senate.
Millbury, Mass., Sept. 17.—President
| Taft was fifty-five years old last Sun-
day. Ho celebrated the day at the
home of his aged aunt, Miss Delia
C. Torrey, here, There was a family
reunion aud a birthday oelebration,
and the president, ate of the apple pies
for which he has made "Aunt i>ella's"
name famous.
OKLAHOMA EDITOR DEAD.
Setli K. Gordon Was C. N. Haskell's
Manager In First Campaign.
Oklahoma City. Sept. 17.—Seth K.
Gordon, editor of the Gore Citizen,
and former secretary of the state elec
tion board, was found dead early Sun-
day morning at his home In Gore. Se-
quoyah county, and was buried there
Monday afternoon. He leaves a wife
and two children and relatives in
South Carolina, his native state, and
in Louisiana, where his mother re-
sides.
Gordon had resided in the Cherokpe
SAPULPA BANK REOPENED.
State Department Pays Depositors
From Guaranty Fund.
Oklahoma City, Sept. 17.—inspec-
tors of the state bank department op-
ened the Farmers and Merchants
bauk at Sapulpa yesterday, to begin
the payment of depositors. The bank-
ing department has no report from
the inspectors, but it is believed that
the total to be paid out of the bank's
assets and the guaranty fund will not
exceed $60,000. Last week the bank-
ing board made a special levy for the
guaranty fund amounting to 1-2 of 1
per cent, one portion of which was
need to enable payment of the depos-
itors' demand. It is estimated the ul-
timate loss to the fund will be small.
The bank was closed by the commis-
sioner last week.
TURKO-ITALIAN_WAR ENOS
Paris Declares Terms of Pence llaie
Been Arranged.
Paris, Sept. 17.—The terms for
peace between Italy and Turkey have
been practically arranged with the
exception of a proposed loan to Tur-
key of between 500,000,000 and 600,-
000,000 francs, concerning which It-
aly is now communicating with
French, English and Belgium finan-
ciers, according to a telegram receiv-
ed by the Paris Temps from Hene
Puaux, one of its editors, at Geneva.
The terms of the proposed settle-
ment include, the dispatch states, the
tacit acceptance by the porte that It-
alian occupation of Tripoli is an ac-
complished fact. Turkey being per-
mitted to retain a Mediterranean port
at one of the extremities of Libya,
with a strip of territory allowing
communication with the Arabs in the
interior.
MEA7HER
New Orleans, Sept. 17—Oklal la
Unsettled weather today; probably
fair Wednesday.
CHARGES AGAINST FLACK
Kansas Hank Wrecker Faces Prison
Term.
Abeline, Kas., Sept. 17.—Eleven
new charges were filed today against
John A. Flack. Flack is charged
with changing figures in the bank's
books and certificates of deposit.
RANKER A SUICIDE
Took His
Life By
Fumes,
Inhaling Gas
Baltimore, Md., Sept. 17.—Geo. C.
Morrison, president of the Title .:u; *•
antee Trust company, committed
Btiicide during last night in his prl-
ate rooms at the Baltimore Athletic
Club. He inhaled gas.
KANSAS FARMER MURDERED
Charred Body Found in Ruins of His
Home.
Ottawa, Has., Sept. 17.—The char-
<1 body of William Marks, 76 years
old, a wealthy farmer, was found in
the ruins of his home near here this
morning. The police are inestigating
on the theory lhat the Marks home
was burned and that there are evi-
dences of foul play.
The Hyle Millinery Store at Dewey
Hill have their fall opening Friday,
September £0.
Xew silk dressi
tying, at Sharpe's
all the new fall
Father and Posse Pursuing Girl Who
Wed In Response to Ad.
Grand Junction, Col., Sept. 17.—
Finding that to ha"e and to hold are
'wo different propositions, Harry Le
Vassey, 3S years old, took matters In
his own hands yesterday and at the
point of a shotgun kidnapped his
bride of two days who had been sep-
arated from him immediately after
their marriage. They are now speed-
ing toward t'tah With a posse in pur-
suit.
Three days ago Le Vassy decided
he wanted a wife. He had an adver-
tisemerif'to this effect thrown on the
screen of a moving picture show and
Laura Beebe, 19, saw it. That night
they were wed, but immediately af-
terward her parents convinced her
she had made a mistake.
Yesterday Le Vassy called at the
home of his father-in-law W. G. Beebe
and vainly demanded to see his bride.
Last night he returned with an auto-
mobile and at the point of a gun de-
clared he would kill Beebe unless Mrs.
Lc Vassy accompanied him. She
went with him willingly but Imme-
diately after they had departed Beebe
engaged the services of a sheriff aud
his deputies. >"
TROOPER SHOOTS MEXICAN.
Bisbee, Ariz., Sept. 17 —Policeman
Aureliano Valle of Naco, Senora, was
fatally shot last night by Private
Brown of Troop G, Fourth cavali*y,
which is stationed at Naco, Ariz., for
patrol duty. The shooting occurred
at a dance hall at Naco where a dance
was in progress.
Swell line of children's dresses at
Sharpe's _ J
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LOST MINE_10CATED
Hy Railroad Engineer Near Bromide,
Oklahoma.
Muskogee, Okla., Sept. 17.—The
famous "Lost Spaniard'' mine, for
which prospectors and investors have
been looking for the last quarter cen-
tury has been found It is believed,
and a company, composed mainly of
M„ O & G. employees and trainmen,
has been formed for its development.
The mine was located at a point about
thirteen miles from Bromide, Okla.,
and a lease has been secured by the
Mystery Mining and Milling company
on the twenty-acre tract on which it
is located.
The mine has been the subject of
columns upon columns of stories and
articles, but although the mine was
known to be in the district around
Wapanucka, it remained for Dan Bell-
chamber, an engineer on the M., O. &
G„ and his friends, to get the story of
the mine's location from an old Indian
couple, living near Bromide.
Feed Prices
Corn ('hops, 100 lbs., $1.66. S & P
Mill Run Bran, 100 lb. $1.20. Oats,
bu. 45c. No extra charge for de-
livery to any part of the city,
Otage Trading Co. Phone 129