Enid Daily Eagle. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 110, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 2, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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Enid's Delegation to Shaw-
nee Successful
WILL EE BIG DRAWING CARD
BECAUSE IT IS THE OFFICIAL
EXHIBITION
A Bill 1 Pending in the Legislature
for $.->,000 Appropriation for
Premiums, One-Half to
He Used Here
' '\\ COUNTY'S HOPE BLASTED
\sed "Park" County in Okla-
homa Fat s in Election
\ . i, Ok., Feb. 2.—Park coun-
ty, voposed new county, to
have composed of a portion of
Klowk
projects
Mount, 1>,
county s£V
in election.
Cbtnmanche counties
citizens of Snyder,
rival town, for the
,iior, went glimmering
It required GO per cent
of the total of all votes cast in the
seceding territory tb carry the prop-
osition. "Park" county secured but
25 per cent in Comanche territory
and 54 per cent in the entire dis-
trict.
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PROPOSED AT GUTHRIE
Oklahoma Christian Univer-
sity Very Prosperous
will seek e
MKX HAVE MET WITH
FINE SUCCESS.
Enough Raised for lh>ing; Business
on u Cash Basis in the Future—
Expect to Have $100,000
Endowment Soon.
Messrs. Watkins, Kester, Kegier,
Crane and Hanyne, the five men who
went from this city to Shawnee Sat-
urday to attend the Oklahoma State
Poultry association show and in-
tended to make an effort to get that
organisation to hold its next annual
meeting in Enid, returned last night
having won their fight. The next
annual meeting of the state asso-
ciation wiil be held in this city in!
January 1910.
Oklahoma City was the strongest
competitor of the Enid delegation
for the 1910 meeting, but it was
shown that the Oklahoma City as-
sociation was in debt and had not
been able to make its shows pay
while the officers of the Big Center
association of Enid displayed a neat
bank account after paying every bill
against their organization and offer-
ing large cash premiums to exhibit-
ors. It was this successful manage-
ment of Enid shows which resulted
in a decision in favor of this city.
The delegation from here was treat-
ed royally by Shawnee and given
much encouragement in their work
for the next meeting.
It is expected that the next show
of the state association will be a
far greater one than any which has
preceded, although the one j'ist
closed was good and drew many
from outside cities to Shawnee.
However, in 1910 the Oklahoma as-
sociation will have become a branch
of the American Poultry associa-
tion and will be recognized as the
official poultry exhibition in the
state. A bill is now pending before
the legislature to have $5,000 ap-
propriated by the state, half ol
which is to be used in 1910 and the
other half in 1911 in giving prem-
iums at the state poultry show.
Should this bill pass the exhibition
in Enid will prove one of the big-
gest drawing cards of the year. Lo-
cal poultry men expect the bill to
become a law.
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•loll \ JENNINGS SHOT
Accidentally Knocked His Revolver
to tike Floor Front Table
It. NO. 2JI CONTAINS IjONG
ABANDONED IDEAS OF
GOVERNMENT.
CRESCENT FARMER ENDS
His LIFE-BECAME DEMENTED
Oklahoma Christian university
will have $50,000 raised for current
expenses by March first to be paid
in during the next three years. There
is now enough money in sight to run
the college on a cash basis for four
years if the matters in dispute be-
tween the college and the University
, Development company can be settled
,• Uoon. It is likely settlement will be
had at a meeting of all stockholders
of the Development company called
for tonight which will also be attend-
ed by the board of regents of the
university, for a friendly consulta-
tion with a view to early settlement.
This meeting will be held in the
Chamber of Commerce rooms.
Three men are now in the field so-
liciting funds for the university and
all are meeting with success. A
fourth will start out March 15th. As
soon as the $20,000 due the college
from the Development company has
been provided for in Borne way and
the liens against the buildings put
there because this money was not
paid have been removed a concerted
effort will be made by all the men
behind the college for a permanent
endowment. The regents expect to
start that movement not later than
March first, and have good reasons
to believe that within a short time
the permanent endowment will
reach $100,000. About $50,000 of
this amount is now ready and prac-
tically certain to be turned over as
soon as present difficulties which
have been dragging some time are
ended.
The university regents met this
afternoon and after going over mat-
ters carefully found the institution's
affairs in such fine condition that
they were more than pleased with
the outlook.
Oklahoma City, Feb. 2.—John D.
F. Jennings, a local attorney and
brother to A1 Jennings, the ex-out-
law and train robber, was probably
fatally shot early last evening by
the accidental discharge of a revol-
ver which he knocked from the
corner of a table in his office. The
ball entered his back and ranged
upwards. It had not been located
two hours later.
It was a brother of Jennings
whom Temple Houston, son of the
Texas general, slew in Woodward a
few years ago, and another brother
was killed in a battle during a train
robbery near El Reno several years
ago, after which A1 and Frank were
captured. John Jennings is chair-
man of the county Democratic cen-
tral committee.
Among the many bills already in-
troduced in the legislature this ses-
sion is H. B. No. 23 (which will
probably be known as Skidoo), by
Hon. W. F. Durham of Pot county.
Copies of this bill have been received
in the city and are being considered
by officeholders here with much in-
terest. 'the purpose of the act is to
make all county offices dependent 011
fees for their remuneration. Some
of the provisions of the bill are so ut-
terly out of keeping with the ad-
vanced ideas of government of today
that one is inclined to wonder where
thfc author has lived or whether he j
knows anything about the subject he
is tackling. If purposely designed to
encourage graft in office and render
inefficient and insecure the public
service the bill could hardly have
been better drawn for that purpose.
Among those to whom the bill was
shown today was County Attorney
McKeever, and he was asked for an
opinion on its merits. Like all oth-
ers who had looked at its contents
Mr. McKcever regards the provisions
of the proi>osed act as very danger-
ous. Here is what he had to say:
"The light of modern civilization
has evidently never dawned upon the
gentleman from Pot. County as his
bill as far as the county attorney's
office is concerned is antiquated and
a back number and incorporates the
very idea that all of the progressive
states have either eliminated or are
now working to unload.
"To make the compensation of the
public prosecutor dependent upon the
conviction of alleged offenders ere-
hunting fdr school Rooms
taking advantage of the unfortunate |
by collusion with magistrates and
others. The modern idea is, or at
least should be, to at all times deal
with those who are charged with
crime with a view to reform and not
to punish or take any advantage. To
cloth a prosecutor with the power
he has is bad enough but to make the
pay depend upon the conviction
would be to go back to the dark ages
in legal procedure."
A Toy Pistol Killed a Roy
Winfleld, Kas., Feb. 2.—Merrill
Saunders, 11 years old, died last
night from a wound received from a
young playmate. The children were
playing with a loaded toy pistol and
it exploded.
THIS
RANKER WILL
60 SG01T FREE
HARVEY SALMON OF CLINTON,
MO., GETS A FAVORABLE
* DECISION
Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 2.—The
supreme court of Missouri today
practically freed Harvey W. Salmon,
a former banker of Clinton, Mo., by
reversing the decision against him
on a charge of receiving money in
his bank when he knew it to be in-
solvent.
GAS COMPANIES SEEK
TO PIPE OUT PRODUCT
RESTRAINING ORDER SERVED
ON WEST AND HASKELL
TODAY.
■Iuskogee, Okla., Feb. 2—Judge
Campbell in the federal court today
issued a temporary order restraining
Governor Haskell, Attorney General
West and the state of Oklahoma
from interfering with the pro«perty
cif the Kansas Natural Gas company
and other foreign corporations and
individuals seeking to pipe gas out
of the state.*
OWN OPERATION KILLED HIM
Dr. II. (J. Vienna 11 of Fort Wayne,
Intl., Died Tryinlg to Prove a
Theory
Fort Wayne, Ind. Feb. 2.—Dr.
Herman G. Merman, 3K years old,
died today from the effects of an
operation which he insisted on hav-
ing performed last Monday for the
removal of long standing intestinal
trouble and to prove the radical
theory which he advocated.
The operation consisted In the
cutting of one of the intestines in
sueh a way as to put four or five
Inches of it out of service
and putting in an arti-
ficial connection. The operation
was successful and the patleut ap-
peared to be Improving.
Board of Education Is Pacing Hard
Situation—Regular Monthly
Meeting
The school board held its regular
meeting in Judge Asher's office last
evening. A number of monthly
bills were allowed. Grant Yeaky
submitted bids for fire escapes, but
his bid being the only one the mat-
ter was placed in the hands of s
committee composed of Kruse, Shaw
and McGill. A committee was ap-
pointed with power to act in the
case of the congested schools on
the east side. The complaints are
from parents having children in the
first grade. A special class was
asked for by Supt. Everbart, in the
interest of about twenty-live mem-
bers of the high school who will not
pass examinations this year.
He proposes a special class
for them so that they can graduate
at the end of the half year. This
matter is under advisement and will
probably be acted on next meeting.
Supt. Everhart reported thirty-two
new enrollments the past month.
Crescent, Feb. 2.—James Elll-
fruitt, a prosperous Logan county
farmer, aged 45, was found dead in
his smoke house 011 his homestead,
three miles west of here, with a
bullet in his brain and a revolver
lying across his breast, at an early
hour this morning. An inquest held
this morning resulted in a verdict
of suicide, cause unknown.
Mrs. Elllfruitt states that her
husband acted queerly all day yes-
terlay. The wife retired early. The
two sons that attended church here
last night returned home at an early
hour to find their father sitting up,
saying he did not feel like sleeping.
Later the sons thought they heard
their father leave the house, but
thought nothing of it until this
morning when he was not found in
his bed. Search for the missing
man about the premises led to the
discovery of the body lying across
a box in the smoke house. The de-
ceased is survived by a wife, two
sons almost grown and a twelve-
year-old daughter. He was appar-
ently in good physical condition,
owned his farm and had recently
completed an addition to his house.
The deceased was highly respected
in the community and was a trus-
tee of the United Brethren church
of this place. The funeral services
will be held tomorrow at 2 o'clock.
HOG SAW SHADOW
One of Fleet's Captains
Faces Court Martial
was drunk, says admiral
BUT THE CAPTAIN SAYS HE WAS
ONLY TIRED
The Incident Has Caused No Little
Commotion Among the Jaek-
ies—Name of Captain
Not V et Known
NO MOTOR CARS FOR ARMY MEN
Secretary Wright Will Make Wash-
ington Officers Give Up
Machines
Washington, Feb. 2.—Luke E.I
Wright, secretary of war, is formu-
lating an order wi lidrawing motor
curs from militia y use in Wash- _
lngton. He finds'them too expens-
ive, and besides, if President Roose To Become Candidates in
volt sets the standard of riding!
So Six Weeks of Bad Weather May
Re Expected, According
to Legend.
The sun came up at 'its usual
hour this morning and has been
shining all day. The ground hog
had 110 chance at all, and seeing his
shadow, backed into his hole. So
for six weeks more, the coal buji
uess at least will be good, according
to this long established prophecy
which fails every now and then.
horseback and makes the ability to
go fifty miles a day essential to
good military form, the further use
of motor cars would tend to destroy|
the popularity of this way of ex
draining the muscles and demon
stratlng endurance.
—o
TAFT WILL RE
A MASON AT
City Election
It STRAIGHT PARTY TICKET
Gibralter, Feb. 2.—The Captain
of one of the battleships in the Am-
erican fleet is today under arrest
011 board his own vessel and will be
tFied by court martial on a charge
preferred by one of the rear admir-
als of the fleet, of being Intoxicated,
at a reception given on short a few j February I S.
days ago. The captain denies the
charge and attribtes his appear-
ance to extreme fatigue.
The Incident has caused much
commotion on the fleet. The cap-
tain's name has not been made pub-
lic.
Cincinnati, Feb. 2—Grand Master
of Ohio Masons, Charles S. Hoskin-
Bon of Zanesville, has tendered to
William Howard Taft the rare and
high honor of being made a Mason at
sight. The ceremony takes place
HASKELL
LOSES IILS
Fails to Recover $105,000 < 'barged
for Official Printing
Didn't 'Hear the Signal
B] Reno, Okla., Feb. 2.—Pat
Bone, section employe of the Hock
Island, was instantly killed at 10:30
Saturday morning. Bone was clear
ing the track in front of the pas-
senger station. His cap was puLed
over hiH ears and he did not hear
a switch engine approach. He was
struck in the back and dragged
a long distance. The brains was
scattered along the track. Bone
was fJG years old. He recently came
from Nebraska.
o
POLICE CHIEF KILLED
Chickasha Police Officers
Over Local Issues
Fight
BRING CRIMINAL ACTION
Shawnee C harged With Making Il-
legal County Scat Fight
Guthrie, Okla., Feb. 2.—Attorney
General West today instructed Coun-
ty Attorney Biggers of Pottawatom-
ie, to bring criminal action against
the city of Shawnee for illegal meth-
ods of conducting the county sea'
flght against Tecumseh, the present
holder.
The complaint filed by citizens of
Tecumseh alleges that the offer of
a court house rent free for ten years
and other similar Inducements held
out to voters, are violations of the
state constitution.
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KNOWEK BUYS RACK HIS
FORMER I1UHINEMS HERE
M. E Milam closed a deal last
evening selling his coal anl feed
business to P. C. Knower. Mr.
Milam bought the business from Mr.
Knower a few months ago.
Oklahoma City, Feb. 2.—A street
duel at Chickasha last night at 9
o'clock resulted in the killing of
Chief of Police Emmett Goodwin
and the serious wounding of Joseph
Earl, his companion. Night Chief
William Thomas is under arrest
charged with the killing. Twelve
shots were fired. The men have not
been 011 good terms for some time.
The issue of "open" and "closed"
town has served to widen the breach
between them. When they met on
the steels tonight a few words were
exchanged and the shooting began.
o
CABINET IN TWO WEEKS
Imperfectly
Out
Washington, Feb. 2.—President-
elect Taft's cabinet will be an-
nounced in two weeks, when Taft
returns from Panama. This much
seems to be certain:
Myron T. Herrlck of Cleveland
Will not be secretary of the treasury
James Wilson of Iowa will not
be retained as secretary of agricul-
ture.
The question of whether Luke E.
Wright of Tennesse will be contin-
ued as secretary of war is not set-
tled.
GOVERNMENT AFTER ROADS
FOR OVERWORKING MEN
TO MAKE A MORAL TOWN
El Reno Ministers War on Suuday
Amusements
El Reno, Feb. 2.—El Reno is to
be the model moral city of the state
if plans laid by the local ministerial
association do not miscarry. The
association is to make a determin-
ed war against all Sunday amuse-
ments other than secular and in-
clude in the list motion picture
shows, baseball, hunting and fish-
ing.
They claim that the various at-
tractions have decreased their au-
diences to such an extent that it is
hardly worth a preacher's while to
attempt to hold Sunday evening ser-
vices.
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Roy's Wounds Futal.
Depew, Okla., Feb. 2—Joseph
Runkle, a boy, Is dead as the result
of wounds sustained during a fight
with a playmate two weeks ago. He
was shot in the hip and blood pois-
oning set in.
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would prevent lynchings
Guthrie, Feb. 2.—The house Sat-
urday passed the senate resolution
appointing a committee of three
from each house to investigate the
Oklahoma statutes prepared by the
Pipe Reed company of Kansas City.
The house committee is composed
of Burnette, Maxey and Humphrey.
A bill was favorably reported.
The author is Humphrey. It pro-
vides a death penalty for criminal
assault, where the victim is under
14 and in all instances where force
is used.
The Maxey bill, making gun car-
rying b.y drunkards a felony, pun-
ishable by a year's sentence in the
penitentiary was also favorably re.
ommunded with the Rotten berg
measure increasing the penalty for
co-joint robbery.
The Glover bill, increasing the
penalty for horse stealilig and the
Tate bill, making the president of
the state anti-horse theif associa-
tion an ex-officio Justice of the
peace, were killed in committee.
A substitute for all but the en-
acting clause of the Glover usury
bill was reported. It makes the of-
fense a misdemeanor instead of a
felony, as provided in the meas-
ure demanded by the farmers' un-
ions.
The judiciary committee reported
the Rogers bill establishing super-
ior courts in counties of over 25,-
000 population, to hold sessions In
concurrence with district and coun-
ty courts. This measure is desig-
ned to relieve the situation in the
counties of the east side of the
state.
Chicago. Feb. 2.—The first suit
brought by the government against
a railroad for violation of the fed-
eral law regulating the time of ser-
vice of train dispatches was filed
today against the Santa Fe.
Guthrie, Feb. 2.—Holding that
the governor had 110 authority to
bring the suit on behalf of the
state simply upon his own relation,
Judge A. H. Houston, in the disi
trlet court here today, dismissed the
case in which Governor Haskell
sued Congressman Bird S. McGulre,
Dennis Flynn and Frank H. Greer,
publisher of the State Capital, to
recover $195,000 alleged to have
been taken from the state in excess
charges for printing and other sup-
plies during the eight years preced-
ing statehood.
Judge Houston held that the gov-
ernor cannot bring suits in behalf
of the state except through the at-
torney general or some county at
torney.
The case will be appealed.
BELLAMY IS ILL
Lieutenant Governor Rushed to El
Reno In Serious Condition
El Reno, Okla., Feb. 2.—Lieuten
ant Governor George W. Bellamy Is
seriously ill at his home In this
city, having boen brought here Sun-
day afternoon from Guthrie on a
special train. For several days he
has been suffering with pneumonia.
Yesterday his condition was consid-
ered critical. There Is a marked
improvement today, although no
one is allowed to see him.
The attending physician expresses
hope for his recovery.
WILL BE PUT IN THE FIELD, IS
DECISION
At Last Night's Meeting in Couuoll
('ha in her the Election Was
Discussed and Conclu-
sion Rcached.
At a meeting of some forty re-
publican^ in, the council chamber
last night called by the city com-
mittee It was practically decided to
put a straight republican ticket in
the field for the spring election and
not Join in any non-partisan move-
ment. The only advocate of the
latter plan present at the meeting
was W. B. Harrison who admitted
that, the time might not have arriv-
ed to start such a movement but
Insisted that it was the only correct
way to choose city officers, and that,
the continued prosperity of the city
would be guaranteed by selections
in tbat manner.
Col. J. B. Ferguson took issue
with Mr. Harrison, declaring in fa-
vor of a straight party ticket, but
urged all republicans to see that
only representative business men
were placed on the ticket and added
that the party had been too negli-
gent about Uie selection of candi-
dates in the past and needed to
wake up. He said there are as
good business men to select from in
the ranks of the republican party as
can be found anywhere. The speak-
er's remarks met with considerable
applause.
Chairman Conklin of the county
(Central committee said that per-
sonally he favored a straight party
ticket from a political standpoint,
that the city is republican by at least
150 majority, and that the party
organization would be injured by
not keeping this majority in line.
Similar talks were made by W. T.
Danley and others. W. H. Hills
moved that nominations be made by
primary and the motion, seconded
by Mr. Measall, was adopted, but
Chairman Conklin stated that he
considered it only an expression of
those present and that the commit-
tee would withold decision on the
matter until the law had been look-
ed up and the situation carefully
considered.
The vote on the question of a
straight, ticket was practically un-
animous.
SHERIFF CLEARED
End to Sensational Trial
Official
Altus, Feb. 2. -Sheriff Georg*o
Hensley, accused of malfeasance in
office, was acquitted Saturday after
a trial of three days. The sheriff
was cleared on all counts. The case
was of a sensational nature. The
officer was charged with misappro-
priating public funds and establish-
ing an immoral regime in the jail.
Seared to Death by a Dog
Philadelphia, Feb. 2.—Albert J.
Winner, 3 years old, died here to-
day from fright caused by seeing
a dog which bit him several weeks
ago.
HELEN MALONEY HAS
WED YOUNGOSBORN
MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER WHO
SHOCKED SOCIAL UNIVERSE
IS MARRIED.
Philadelphia, Feb. 2 Miss Helen
M. Maloney of this city and Arthur
Herbert Osborn of New York, were
married today by Rev. Stephen M.
Lyons at Salut Catherine's Roman
Catholic church, Spring Lake, N. J.
Miss Maloney is the daughter of a
millionaire of this city and came in-
to notoriety a year ago by a secret
marriage to Osborn and later elope-
ment to Italy with a young English-
man.
NO TROUBLE WITH PRISONERS
BRIDE RECOVERS
Hope Dawns for Victim of Ardmore
Rooming House Fire
Ardmore, Ok., Feb. 2.—Mrs. T.
V. Littlejohn, whose husband* of
one day was burned to death in a
rooming house fire Saturday morn-
ing, will recover from her own in-
juries. She was thought to have
been fatally hurt. She is in the
Ardmore sanitarium and is suffer-
ing greatly, but the physician says
she will survive.
The body of the bridegrom was
taken Saturday to McKinney, his
home, for interment, by a brother,
S. A. Littlejohn.
TAFT IS MAKING THOROUGH
INSPECTION OF CANAL
Oklahoma Convicts Safely lauded
In Their New Quarters
Guthrio, Okla., Feb. 2. Wm
Meeks, one of the deputies who as-
sisted in bringing the special train
of convicts from the Lansing peni-
tentiary in Kansas to the federal
Jail at Vinita, and the temporary
penitentiary at McAlester, where the
Oklahoma prisoners are now being
kept, returned to Guthrie today. Ho
says the trip was made Sunday no
attempts to escape were made by
the prisoners. All were In a happy
mood, Hald Meek, and composed
songs of praise of Kate Barnard,
and of happiness because thero were
no mines in the Oklahoma priaons.
Culebra, Panama, Feb*. 2.—Taft
and a corps of engineers left here
today for the site of the Gatun dam.
The day will be spent in making a
thorough inspection of the work at
that point. The Pacific entrance of
the canal will be inspected Wed-
nesday.
MISSOORIANS ASK
EOR PROHIBITION
PETITIONS FROM EYER\ COI N-
TV IN STATE BEFORE
LEGISLATURE.
Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 2 Peti-
tions were presented to both houses
today the signers comprising resi-
dents of every county in the state,
for the submission of an amendment
to the state constitution prohibiting
the manufacture or sale of intoxi-
cating liquors in Missouri.
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