Enid Daily Eagle. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 189, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 5, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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ENID DAILY EAGLE.
VOL. VIII. NO. ITU.
ENID D.VILY EAGLE* \VE1>\ESDAY, MAY
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
4
TURKS
ARE
Armenian Butcheries W<. ' V
Than Darkest Past
NIANY TOWNS ARE WIPED OUT
instances where women were brought
out one by one and shot down, the
bystanders slapping their hands at
each fresh killing.
I The local authorities are giving 4
| cents a day today for each refugee in
: Tarsus. The government allotment
| is being supplemented from funds
j of the American mission. The local
| officials say they are soon going to
discontinue their contributions, and
' this is done mere will be a famine,
"'he yard of the American mission
0 > appears .ike a prison pen.
•he captain of a French man-
• Mersina came up to Tarsus
w. Tiber of officers on a visit
lie i at the mission house.
' m (lod," he said, "this is terrl-
| ble. Where do all these people
j sleep?"
MEN STOOD IN LINK AND SHOT \ The men wander around all night
DOWN FOII IEKVENGE. , I trying to keep warm. The women
| and children sleep at night on the
Women and Children Slain and! floors of the schoolrooms. Few of j
Young Girls Carried Away anil i them have beds.
Traded for Mules and Wagons In the meantime the Moslems, in
Atrocities Indescribable the wasted country roundabout, are j
j pasturing their horses and cattle on !
Beirut, Asiatic Turkey, May 5.— the green crops of their Armenian j
The. situation at Saudia and Detti'-j victims.
tyul again is critical. Further ami-1
Christian outbreaks are feared. i-'i.
hundred Turkish troops have bee
dispatched to those two points.
JUL CELLS II
Pittsburg Silk Hat Brigade
Sent to Prison
COMBINED TO LOOT THE CITY
NOW \\ II I. II \\ I
THINK IT OYI
111
Scvci
I of the Wealthiest Men In I
"Smoky City" Informed Hv
the Court Ilow Long They
Will Wear StrijM's
REFUSES TO TRANSFER
BOND SALE MONEY
Frank H. Letson, retiring treas-
urer of the city of Enid, today re-
fused to turn over to C. W. Goltry,
the newly elected city treasurer, the
money now in the city treasury de-
rived from the sale of the recent city
bond issue. Letson turned over the
balance of the money, amounting to
$11,000. The bond money amounts
to over two hundred thousand dol-
lars. This action is the result of the
entanglement arising out of the sale
of the bonds to O. .1. Fleming, which
carried a contract providing that Mr.
Fleming should pay live per cent on
the bond money until it was expend-
ed. Mr. Goltry stated at live o'clock
that he would bring suit to compel
the transfer of the money.
SHALL ENID GET A NEW RAILROAD
RUNNING WEST INTO TEXAS PANHANDLE
Tarsus, Asiatic Turkey, May 5.—
Authentic details of the atrocities
committed by the fanatical Moham-
medans in the villages and farms in
this district are now coming into
Tarsus with sickening abundance.
The worst particulars of these nar-
ratives cannot be mentioned, but they
set forth without doubt that at least
10,000 persons lost their lives in this
province and some estimates place
total casualties at 25,000. Village
NEW STEAiVl BAKERY
BUILT Bt MARTIN
iAMTAHV SHOP WITH CAPACITY
OK 15,000 LOAVES PK.lt DAY
NOW OPEN.
HIGH SCHOOL OEBATt
RERE FRiDAY NIGHT
I R. M. Martin, one of Enid's well
ico oi ««« I know pioneers, has just completed
like' Osmanleh" BazsThT HamVdieb" { of 11 thoroughly
Kara Kristian, Keop aud Kezilook
were actually wiped out.
Each of these places had popula-
tions of from 500 to GOO. In one
town of 4,000 there are less than
100 left, nearly all women and chil-
dren. It was the same thing with the
hundreds of chiltlikes, or farms, that
dot this wide and fertile plain. The
slaughter was unsparing. Even
Greeks and Syrians were struck down
with the Armenians. Entire families
were burned to death in their homes.
Hundreds of girls and women were
maltreated and carried off to the
harems.
The correspondent was informed
that at one place a party of 3.00 Ar- !
menians surrendered to the soldiers. |
The prisoners were taken to an open
field, where the women were ordered
to stand apart trom the men. Every
one of the men was then shot. Iu
many cases they were put to death
with their wives clinging to them,
trying to save their lives. A large
number of women were wounded be-
cause of their persistence TTi trying
to save their husbands.
Sixty men who were brought down
into this district from Hadjin are
now held as slaves.
Turks around Tarsus are trading
today Armenian girls for horses and
modern repeating rifles. The entire
ten days appear to have been an in-
sensate orgy of lust and violence in
the name of race and religion. In
the massacres of fourteen years ago
there was no such desire to kill wo
modern steam bakery on Madison
street in Kenwood, which is now
open. The building is of cement
stone with concrete floor, and is
constructed in a sanitary manner
throughout.
Mr. Martin intends to give Enid
bread and other bakery products
Pittsburg, Pa., Maj
was imposed today on st
recently convicted of municipal
graft. \V. W. Ramsey, former bin'.i
president, convicted of bribery, was
given a year and a half in prison,
and fined one thousand dollars.
John F. Klein, member of th coun-
cil, was sentenced to three years and
u half and fined one thousand dol-
lars; Joseph C. Wasson. Wm. Brand.
H. M. Bolger, Charles Colbert md j Friday night of this week at the
John Colbert received sentences of, j^oewen theater the Commission
Form of Government, which it is be-
i imi> ti:a m will mi:i:t <u thuii
DEI! ITIKS IN THK l.olU EX
OPEHA HOI SK.
from one year and a half to v o
years. Several of those sentenced
are among the wealthiest men
the city and desperate efforts h
been made to save them.
—o
10 HAVE DIE COAL HOD HERE
John McDonald, who retired as
president of the McDonald Coal Co.,
last week, left for his home in Henry-
made in as clean and sanitary a shop etta |ast „jght where he will arrange
' as can be found in the largest cities
11 1 The bakery is equipped with modern
mixing and moulding machinery, op-
erated by electricity. The oven
equipped with steam apparatus, has
a capacity of 15,000 loaves per day.
As run at present but 10.000 loaves
can be baked, but the construction is
such that the number can be brought
for the permanent operation ot tli
Henryetta mines there wvl'Vli have
passed into the control of Enid bus-
iness men.
A. B. Chapek, the new president,
stated today that the affairs of the
company were in splendid condition
and that when the Henryetta mines
were fully developed, that the coui-
lleved Enid will adopt soon, will be
I" thoroughly discussed l>y the debating
v.: teams of the Enid and Guthrie High
schools. The success of the move-
ment in Des Moine, Wichita, Ros-
well N. \i.. and other cities will be
commented upon. The topic will be
"Resolved. That American Citizens
Should adopt the Commission Form
of Government."
The Enid team has the affirmative
side of the question. Enid's debat-
ers are Marquis .lames, McKiniey
Crouse and Miss Mabelle Stuart.
NEW DANK WILL OPEN ON
EAST SIDE SQUARE SOON
On May 12, the new Security State I
bank of Enid with a capital of $35,-
000 will open, and according to the
promoters it will be one of the sound- j
est and most enterpriser financial i
institutions in northern Oklahoma, i
ti. W. Burford is president: ti. E.
Burford vice president ,and W. M. j
Champion, cashier. The Burforils
were formerly in the banking busi-
ness in Mulhall.
"We have beeu In the banking bus-
iness in Oklahoma for seventeen
' years," remarked Mr. Burford to-
1 day," and 1 feel confident that we
can be in the same business in Enid
for many years to come. We were at
Mulhall Tor eleven years. Our cap-
ital will be increased as rapidly as
the business warrants.
The Security State bank will oc-
cupy the ground floor of the Wood
building on the east side of the
square, formerly occupied by Mosig'a
store.
up to 15,000 loaves whenever deslr- pany would acquire other properties
ed. -j and increase their facilities. It is
"We hive made a good start in the | Relieved that a large coal yard w ill
amount of sales" said Mr. Martin to- j ,|e establisehed here by the McDon-
day," and expect our business to -
grow rapidly. People who look over
the bakery realize that we have made
a step in the right direction and are
proud to have such an institution
here."
POSI OFFICE RECEIPTS
INCREASE $1,000 PER MONTH
A gain of over $925 in the re-
ceipts of the Enid post office for
April of this year over April of last
'ar, speaks volumes for the steady
aid Coal company to take crfre
the Garfield county business.
PRISONERS ARRAIGNED
BEFORE JUDGE GARBER
THURSDAY'S GUI
CALLED III 2 P. I
In 1.. las, ,0. Th„,.. ™ I'""*1 '« "
have been numerous instances of the ti"' receipts for May will be at least
murdering of women and children a thousand dollars more than those
with deliberation. andvthere are other ' Ma-- ot 1-■
Strongly Upheld By Kentucky Senator In
The Tarift Debate
A. Miller, larceny of person; Den-
nis Hay aud Leroy Ray, burglary: |
James Herndon. forgery; Sunny
Williams, grand larceny, were ar-
raigned before Judge Milton C. Gar-
ber In the district court on the stated
charges this morning- The five men
entered pleas of not guilty. Their
bends were fixed at sums from $10
to $2,000, but none were able to
give bond. James Herndon, who
v. as indicted along with Howard
Throckmorton, for passing a forged
check, is making a big effort to
secure ball.
A motion for a new trial in the
ense of H. H. Schick versus 11. W.
Sawyer, was overruled by the court.
I The attorneys will appeal.
Judgment on journal entry was al-
lowed in the following cases: A. H.
Keith versus John D. Heubert, et al.,
Oklahoma State bank versus Me-
Cracken, et al., and Sarah 1.. Lari-
mer versus Bear, adm'r, et al
CfNSTABLE PUT UNDER OOND
I
Robert Duncan, constable north of
Garber stands a good show of losing
his commission. Last week in Jus-
tire H. O. Glasser's court County At-
torney McKeever and Justice Glasser
severely criticized persons car-
rying concealed weapons and Dun-
can's name was mentioned in the
• roast." He only grinned. Yester-
day Duncan was arrested charged
with having pulled a gun on Pe-.er
Randolph. Duncan was arraigned
before Justice Glasser yesterday af-
ternoon and plead not. guilty. He was
placed under $400 bond.
JURY DRAWN IN HASKELL
CASE-DOWN TO BUSINESS
Owing to the fact that the hall
team will have to leave on the Fris-
co for Bartlesville at 4:15 tomorrow
the game on Thursday will be called
for two o'clock sharp. An < fTort was
made today to get another train out
but without result. This is an hour
and a half earlier than the usual
time.
WHEAT IS STILL ON
THE UPWARD TREND
CHICAGO MARKET HK.IIEK,
OHIO MILLS I'AY RECORD
PRICE
Chicago, May 5.—May wheat ad-
vanced to one dollar and twenty-
nine and a hall', a new record price
shortly after the opening today. July-
advanced one cent to a dollar seven
teen. Dry weather in Kansas and
Nebraska were new bullish inllu-
enees.
lor other easterners who are on the
ways and means committee of the
| house and the finance committee of
| the senate. The Joint committee
j will lie composed of sixteen members
! eight from each house, the repub-1
1 leans having live and the democrats |
I three of each eight. The first four]
members on tile house committee
on ways and means are: Payne,
New York; Dal/.el, Pennsylvania;
j McCall, Massachusetts, and i..il.
Connecticut. The conferrees are
ucually ielect«d in th order Qf
their rank, and if these four were |
selected there would be an over- J
i abundance or eastern interests rep-1
I resented on the lioue end. The fifth |
member is Needham of California, j
aud the next is Boute',1 of Illinois.
Calderhead aud Fordnev follow.
It is stated that Mr. Calderhead
| would be willing to give way to a j
| younger and more vigorous man
i from the west, and Boutell and
•'ordney are spoken of as possible
■onferrees. The democratic mem-
bers will, of course, be Clark of
Missouri. Underwood of Alabama
and Griggs of Georgia.
The same top-heaviness of eastern-
ers is found in the senate finance
committee which is headed by Al-
drich, who is followed in the order
named by Burrows of Michigan,
Penrose of Pennsylvania, Hale of
Maine, Cullom of Illinois. Lodge of
Massachusetts—four out of six from
the east. If the west is given recog-
nition iu the appointment or senate
conferees a likely choice would be
Bmoot of Utah as a substitute for one
of those named. McCuniber of
North Dakota and Flint of California
are other western membfrs.
That Question is Now Be-
fore this City
A PUBLIC MEETING TONIGHT
i\ mi hisTKMT coi irr koom
FOK KVKKYBODY.
School lloni'il to
Tonight at 8 p. in. the new board
of education Meets in Justice Ash-
er'* court room to elect permanent
officers for the year and also to dis-
cuss ways and nienns for carrying
on school improvement and other
matters.
PEDESTRIAN KEEPS
U? HIS L'
Washington. D. C., May 5.—A
strong speech for the principle of
the protective tariff with a special
plea for a duty on jute was made in
the senate today by Senator Brad-
ley, of Kentucky.
'Give us fair protection in Ken-
tucky." said Mr. Bradley, facing the
republicans of.the senate, "and I
promise you that in a short while it
shall become as certainly republican
as the great state of Massachusetts."
Mr. Bradley declared that unless
the Jute industry, on which he asked
a protective tariff duty of one and
one half cents a pound, was protect-
ed it would be annihilated.
"It has been demonstrated by ac-
tual experience in the last five
years," said Mr. Bradley, "that
hemp may bo successfully grown in
Pennsylvania, Indiana, Wisconsin,
Michigan, Minnesota, Kansas, and
we are informed by high and un-
questioned authority that it may be
nia. Formerly, he said, hemp was
largely commercially grown in Vir-
ginia. Kentucky, and in Missouri,
bu? for the last ten years, it lias
been grown commercially only in
Kentucky. Nebraska and California,
the greater part of it having been
grown in Kentucky. He explained
the uses to which American hemp
were put, fine twine of great
strength as well as heavy cordage
being made from it. For the last two
years he said, the navy department
consumed nearly twenty per cent of
the entire production of double
dressed hemp.
"At one time," he continued,
"there was in the I'nited States $3,-
341,500 invested in hemp manufac-
ture, more than 6,000 hands employ-
ed at a yearly wage of nearly $1,-
200,000, and 417 mills in operation,
1&9 of which were in Kentucky. 50
in New York, aud 208 more through-
out the country. There were then
MANY ENID PEOPLE WILL
ATTEND BIG CENTENNIAL
(juetuiuueu nuuiuni; """ "•«.
successfully grown in limestone soils from 75,000 lo 80,000 tons raised
anywhere in the Mississippi valley,
as well as at many points along the
Pacific coast; in fact, in almost every
state in the Union."
He exhibited to the senate, photo-
graphs of hemp fields in Kentucky,
Wisconsin, Indiana and Pennsylva-
each year, which if now raised,
would be worth moro than $10,000,-
000. But now there are only 28 mills
in the United States, two of which
are in Kentucky, and all of which,
to a large extent are manufacturing
(Continued on page three)
Arrangements are being made by
E. V. Zollars, president of the Ok-
lahoma Christian University and
other Enid members of the denom
ination for a large Enid attendance
at the centennial convention in Pitts-
burg, Pa., Ill October of the Chris-
tian church. Two Pullmans will
chartered and about forty will go
from Enid to the big meeting whlcn
will attract members of the Chris-
tian church from all over the world.
CDDNTF.Y LI SESSION
Outhrie, May 6.—With delega-
tions from Arkansas, Louisiana,
New Mexico, Kansas and Texas in
attendance, the Southwest Inter-
state Commission on Country Life
convened here today for a three days
session.
Muskogee, Ok., May 5.—The uew
jury that Is to investigate the Mus-
kogee townslte case, in which Gov.
Haskell and six other prominent
Muskogee men are defendants, was
orawn Monday morning in the pres-
ence of special federal prosecutor,
Sylvester Rush, district I . S. Attor-
ney Gregg and the attorneys for the
defense. Although the jury has been
instructed to meet in Tulsa, May 10,
the witnesses are not summoned to
appear until two days later. The ses-
sion will consume four days it is ex-
pected.
Practically every witness that tes-
tified before the first grand jury will
be recalled. They are from every part
of the country and the expense to
the 'government will be heavy.
The jury is composed of the fol-
lowing: 1. J. Buck, Tulsa; .1. G. Hall,
Wagoner; C. T. Lawson, Eufaula;
John Lakowskiz. Weleetka; R. H.
Gilllland, Ft. Gibson; Frank Hub-
bard, president of the First National
bank .Muskogee; .1. I- Cooper. Whit-
field; tt. W. Cunningham. Weleetka;
,1. G. Cowen, Okmulgee; J. Ford,
Hurlburt; John E. Bruin, Bristow;
Joseph Harmon. Boynton; J. A.
Todd. Muskogee: G. W. Thompson,
Ft. Gibson; Jack McPherson, War-
ner.
WESTON STEPPED oi l I'Oltn
(INK Mil,EH YESTl:ltl>.M \ND
KEELS KINK
Columbus, Ohio. May Number
two wheat, or milling wheat, reach-
ed the dollar fifty mark In the Col-
umbus, this price, it is said, being
the hi§J>est paid in the United
Slates in thirty-one years.
Enid mills are paying $1 42 to- j
day.
SUGAR TRUST THIEF
TO BE PROSECUTED
New York, May 5.—Criminal pro-
ccdings as outgrowth of govern-
ment's suit against American Sugn •
Refining company began today with
arrest of Thomas Kehoe many years
a checker on the docks of the com-
pany in Brooklyn, charged with
manipulation of scales, and defraud-
ing the government out of duties by
low weights.
-o —
TAFT WANTS WEST TO HAVE
BETTER REPRESENTATION
HlfgimvUle, Mo.. May r,.—Ed-
ward Payson Weston, the aged pe-
destrian who Is walking across the
continent, left here at seven thirty
this morning, after having rested out
five hours. He arrived here from
Slater, Mo., forty-one miles, a* two
this morning. He is in excellent
condition and hopes to reach Kan-
sas City, fifty-four miles distant, to-
night.
Informal Meeting of Boosters Secure
Definite Proposition From Pro-
moter Weist; Question is
lletore the City.
+ *
+ Do you want Enid to *
+ have the great new line of +
+ railroad to the west? if *
+ you do, come out to the +
1 * court house tonight to the
RAILROAD MEETING, at S +
P. tit +
+ + + J. + + + + + + + + + + + + +
A proposition unequalled in im-
portance Dy any ever put up to the
city will be presented at a public
meeting to be held in the district
court room tills evening at eight p.
111. Every man interested in the
building of greater Enid is request-
ed to be present. The question of
whether or not Enid shall have a
new line of road from this city to the
Panhandle of Texas, known as the
Enid, Ochiltree and Western, will be
put squarely before the business men
property owners and others. A def-
nite proposition has at last been se-
cured from A. E. Weist. promoter
of the new line, who is in the city.
He will leave tomorrow morning for
Dalhart. This meeting is for the
purpose of giving all Enid men an
opportunity to near what Mr. Weist
lias to say and to have the proposi-
tion explained in detail.
Last night the thirty boosters who
took the .lalhart trip met in the
I Cnamber of Commerce rooms and
talked the matter over with Mr.
Wiest, who had been Invited to come
to Enid. They went into tlie propo-
sition in detail aud linaliy induced
the promoter to agree to take up the
Enid end of this line and see that it
is Imilt, just as he has ttie west end.
providing the men of Enid will show
their interest as the people ot the
Panhandle did. After very careful
consideration those present came to
tile unanimous conclusion that Enid
will do what Mr. Weist suggests and
that the road can be built along the
lines proposed. In orJer to make
the matter certain, hjwt ver, and not
wishing to shoulder any responsibil-
ity for or against the proposed rail-
road it was decided to call the meet-
ing for tonight and let everybody
participate in the decision.
Present at the boosters meeting
last night were many of the most
prominent business men in the city.
These men agreed that no more im-
portant proposition ever came up for
(Continued on page live)
DECLARE III OUT OF DATE
Resolutions Presented at Peace Congress-
Strong Address by Barthcldt
ROOSEVELT BREAKS
TWO MOKE Blti LIONS \\ I-'.IIE
KILLED ItV THE i:\-PKKSI-
1)ENT TUESDAY
Nairobi. British East Africa, May
."..—Roosevelt went lion huntin?
again yesterday and before the
chase wns over two more big lions
had fallen berore Ills gun. Roose-
velt now holds the record for lion
killing In' the Protectorate.
Washington, May I' That Presi-
dent Tart's interest in the passage of
a tariff measure by congress extends
to the possible make-up of the joint
conference committee has developed
through questions he has asked by
numerous callers at the White
House recently It is understood
that the preside nt would not like to
a bill come to him for his sig-
nature which was made and dom-
inated in its manufacture by the
representatives in the two houses of
one particular section of the coun-
try. and he has quietly asked if rep-
resentatives, for instance, of the w est
and middle west would not be select-
ed to act with the New Engenders
Chicago, May General interest
at the National Peace Congress to-
day attached to the report of the
committee on resolutions, which be-
gan as follows:
"Resolved, that public war is now
out of date, a relic of barbarism, and
that nations of the world by joint
agreement should make its recur-
rence hereafter impossible."
Chicago, May 4. Representative
Ilarthoidt. of Missouri, was one of
the principal speakers here today at
Hie Second National Peace Confer-
ence. The Idea which gave birth to
tlie Congress, he said, was the great-
est moral issue now confrontng all
the nations of the earth. He declared
that it was not his optimism but his
deliberate Judgment which prompted
him to believe that when that Idea
had penetrated the minds and
bear's of the masses it would sweep
the world.
Against all the machinations
which impress the minds of the peo-
ple. said Mr. Ilarthoidt, through eyes
and ears, with the glory of militar-
ism and war, the friends of the
world-wide peace were at a great dis-
advantage "for the weapons they
employ in their war upon war are
invisible and the progress of their
cause cannot be seen." Their weapon
consisted simply in an appeal to rea-
son and their progress existed only
ill tile minds of men. "But despite
this disadvantage," he exclaimed,
"all the clap trap of militarism and
war will avail nothing in the end as
against the resistless force of our
idea." That idea, he explained, was
that the peace of the United States
with foreign nations shall be se-
cured in exactly the manner as Its
domestic peace is secured, namely,
by referring all controversies to the
urts for settlement."
Mr. Ilarthoidt took the position
that nations are two-faced and their
attitude SO shockingly inconsistent
as to lie untenable before the forum
of either reason or morality. He
maintained that governments did not
regard the obligation to keep the
peace imposed on the citizen by the
nation as binding upon the nation
Itself, and that by praising battle-
ships as Implements of peace they
actually repudiated their own civil
institutions. "Peace between individ-
uals Is to be maintained by law;
(Continued on page Ave)
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