Morning Examiner. (Bartlesville, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 256, Ed. 1 Friday, October 8, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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MORNING EXAMINER.
"VOL. XIV.
BARTLESVILLE. OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1909.
NUMBER 256.
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PARTY LOOKS
FOR VICTORY
DEMOCRATS FAVOR A NATION-
AL CONFERENCE.
Short Campaigns Have Led to De-
feat and More Time is Now
Needed.
•Washington, Oct. 7.—Democratic
members of cogress are rallying to a
suggestion for a national conference
of democratic leaders next year sim-
ilar to that recently held by the
leading Democrats of the state of
New York, both in intent and pur-
pose.
A strong desire for a "get to-
gether" conference has already been
expressed by Representative Champ
Clark of Missouri, minority leader of
the house; Underwood of Alamabama,
McDermott of Illinois, Slayden «/f
Texas and Adamson of Georgia, and
Senator Rayner of Maryland. Con-
cerning those issues upon which
there is hope of democratic harmony,
■Senator Raynor said:
"We voted, with a single excep-
tion, solidly against the tariff bill.
We are, I apprehend, opposed to a
great central bank which is one of
the coming problems controlling the
finances of the country.
"We are united against the en-
croachment of federal centralization,
and we propose to stand in unbro-
ken array for economy in governmen-
tal expenditures, against the wild ex-
travagance of the Republican par-
ty.
"I think our reverses have only
encouraged us to renew our efforts
for victory, and a conference of thin
sort would pdepare the dfy for liar
sort would prepare the tray fox jiar-
mony and enable us to subordinate
all minor issues to the great object
of democratic supremacy.''
While tbe movement to hold the
conference is well nnder way, no place
has yet been selected to hold it. It
has been suggested that Chicago :s
th best located city, geographically,
for bringing together the democratic
leaders of all the states, but the east-
ern democrats are expected to make
a strong bid for it, and Senator
Rayner liac already suggested Bal-
timore.
Governor Marshall of Indiana, who
is considered a presidential possibili-
ty, has written a letter to the men
who are attempting to arrange for
such a conference, expressing some
doubt as to the wisdom of the plan.
He says in his letter:
"The difficulty confronting a con-
ference to consult about the future
policy and interests of the democratic
party would 'arise from the inability
of the persons taking part in such n
conference to show the rank and file
of the party that they had any au-
thority to act.
I do not believe that I hare any
commission to declare what the next
national platform shall or shall not
contain. I have a right to express
my views on that great question, bith
publicly and privately. If these views
reach the people they will be accepted
or rejected as they may appear to
be right or wrong to men who will
constitute that convention.
'It may be an iridiscent dream,but
I hope that the next 'democratic na-
tional convention will feel it to be a
duty to present one great issue, ask-
ing all who believed ia the then dem-
ocratic view of that question to voce
the ticket and thus enable the Ameri-
can people to settle one question at a
time.
"So resourceful is the opposition
that I hope the next national con-
vention will not afford electors the
opportunity to ease their co.i-
sciences by voting against us be-
cause they do not believe in oar
declaration on some minor ques-
tion."
THOMAS SWOPE LEFT
MUCH TO CHARITY
Benevolent Bequests Approximating
$156,000 Provided for in His
Will.
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 7.—Be-
nevolent bequests approximating
fl$5,000 are provided for in the will
of the late Thomas Swope, who diea
here last Sunday. Portions of the
will were made public today.
The benevolent bequests are as fol-
lows:
Real estate valued at $50,000 to the
Humane society, the proceeds to be
used every year *to give the children
of Kansas City an outing in Swope
Park.
Real estate valued at $60,000 to
Park College, Piatt county, Mo.
To the Provident association, $25,
000, to be known as the "Swope
Fund," the earnings to be given to
the poor and needy of Kansas City.
To the Women's Christian associa-
tion, the Young Women's Christian
association and the Young Men's
Christian association, $10,000 each.
CANNON THUNDER T
ROYAL GREET!
G FOOT
News of Birth of Baby to Crown
Princess of Germany is Cele-
brated.
New York, Oct. 7.—When the
official but belated news that the
Gerinau crown princess, Cecerfie, had
given birth to a son, reached the Ger-
man flagship Victoria Luise, the glav
tidings was signalled to all other
warships in the Hudson river and
immediately cannonading such as was
never heard there before broke forth.
Each war ship of every nation rep-
resented fired a royal salute of 21
gans.
Never before in this country did
the birth of a baby receive such a
tremendous demonstration. Admi-
ral and other officials in gold braid
and medals hurried from their re-
spective vessels to the German flag-
ship where they extended their con-
gratulations to the German comman-
der and these were promptly cabled
to Germany.
All of the warships remaining in
the river today were taking on
board coal in preparation for their
departure.
FROM SALOME TO
A NUN, FOR MARY
New York, Oct. 7.—Imagine Mary
Garden, who wouldn't let anyone e!*a
play the part of Salome or Louise
at the Manhattan opera house last
winter, anl had a row with Oscar
Hammersterin about it, preparing to
become a nun! From Salome of the
seven veils to a nun with only one
is a big wriggle, but somebody ca-
bled that Miss Gaden was contem-
plating it and today a friend o£ tile
singer received a letter from Miss
Garden in which she wrote:
"I am spending all my time study-
ing the Roman Catholic religion sb
as to fit mysefl to become a nun.
I am tired of all the pomp and van-
ity of this wicked world, and when
my operatic career closes I will r%
tire to « convent."
A little while ago stories were
floated that a Russan prince was
pursuing Miss Garden intent on mar-
rying her. That story is a bit stale
now. but the nunnery one is brand
II6KED AWAY AT
OF SIERRAS
ifornia cities between San Francisco
and Merced, and at the latter place
was escorted to the court house, where
he made a brief address to a big
throng. All business in the town was
suspended while the president was
there.
PRESIDENT TAFT GOES
THE YOSEMITE.
INTO
Chief Executive Will Get Three Days
Rest From the Surging
Crowds.
Rev. Ralph J. Lamb has returnei
from Oklahoma City.
Fred Cox charged with forgery was
I returned to the Washington county
jail yesterday after a preliminary
i hearing at Ramona in whicli he was
held to the district court in $2,500
bond.
El Portal, Cal., Oct. 7.—President
Taft is safely tucked away tonight
in this remote [ittle settlement at the
foot of the Sierras and near the gate-
way of the Yosemite valley.
Clad in khaki coat and riding
breeches, soft shirts, boots and cap,
President Taft will tomorrow start
out of El Portal on a three days'
sightseeing trip. By stage and on foot
he will visit the giant Sequoyah in
the Mariposa big tree grove, will fol-
low the roads and trails leading into
the valley and will walk about the
floor of the national park to admire
its imposing scenic splendor.
The visit to the big trees comes first
in Mr. Taft's itinerary. Leaving by
coach early tomorrow morning, he
and his party will be driven to Wa-
wona, at the edge of the grove. The
president will spend Thursday night
at the hotel in Wawona.
Friday afternoon the president will
enter the park from one of the high-
est points^ and after a trip to all the
show places of the upper levels, will
begin a descent to the floor, which
is enclosed by almost perpendicular
cliffs of stone more than 3,000 feet in
height.
It will be the first trip for the presi-
dent into t ehYosemite valley and he
has been looking forward to it for
•months both as a sightseeing experi-
ence and as affording three days of
'rest from surging crowds and speeci
making.
When the park officials heard tha.
the president was coming, they ar-
ranged to have a troop of United
States cavalry act as his escort for
the day among the big trees and the
two days in the valley.
John Muir, the noted naturalist and
geologist, joined the president's party
at San Francisco this morning, and
will personally explain the wonders
of the park and the valley to Mr.
Taft.
The Yosemite recently was recedcu
by the state of California to the Uni-
ted States and now is under the same
control as Yellowstone park.
The president today made several
car-end speeches at thriving little Cal-
QuAL/rve STYLE COUHTJ
TH Oily Eulisivi Wain's toreiit St* ii lirtlmilli
TN order to see bow many Ladies will Read
1 our ad we will give a Rebate of $2.00 for
One Week, commencing Saturday, Oct* 9, to
the lady cutting out this ad and presenting it
when a suit or coat is being purchased*
Of course the garments wt show arc entire-
ly different from die ordinary run you see in
other stores. Our Suits and Coats, as well as
our garments, have that smart apperance, that
stylish cut, that chic and dash, that price reas-
onableness# that you cannot find in other stores
If YouSeeitatRatner's its Correct
210 East Third Street Bartlesville. Oklahoma.
FOUND STOLEN 8TAMP8
AND BANK NOTES
Denver, Oct. 7.—Five thousand
dollars worth of stamps and $5,600
worth of unsigned bank notes, con-
signed to California banks, which
were a part of the booty contained
in the mail pouch which mysterious-
LACK OF HOUSES
A BIG OBSTACLE
TO WELFARE OF CITY'S INDUS-
TRIES.
May Block Establishment of Kg
Factory Which Wonld Employ
One Hundred Men.
" There is one great obstacle I A"#
— rw~v" U1JUWV41VUO- gxuac J. una
ly disappeared from the Union Pa- in the way of locating an induatzg
cific mail train in Wyoming some here that employs a large nun*
months ago, have been recovered by of men," said a gentleman last
'' Wid'' Anderson, an immigrant on
the south fork of Green river, and
were returned with other private pa-
pers to the post office inspector^
here.
The stamps and bank notes had
evidently teen hidden in a ravine
within three miles of the river as
the trail of the stamps led from tin
ravine to the place where they were
found.
Rain had washed them into the
river.
UNDEO OLD ELMS
HE TAKES SEAT
Abbott L. Lowell is Formally Made
President of Harvard
University.
Cambridge. Mass., Oct. 7.—Ab-
bott Lawrence Lowell seated himself
today in tbe president's chair of
Harvard university, from which he
proclaimed his policies and distribu-
ted the celebration gifts of the unj-
%-ereity to thirty of the men of let-
ters who came from various parts
of the world to pay him tfibntl.
The inauguration scene pas laid
beneath tbe elms of the college yard
fop an audience of more than 5,000
persons. Later in the day the elumm
pledged its fealty to the new presi-
dent and gave an inspiring and en-
thusiastic Ood-speed to President
(Emeritus) Charles William Eliof,
who, as president of the alumni as-
sociation, delivered his valedictory.
In outlining his policies, President
Lowell declared himself in favor of
men learning one thing well and
something of everything. He placed
himself on the side of intercollegiate
sports and the only striking occasiai
for the display of college solidarity.
He also stated his belief in the se
drawing together of the ties among
upper classmen. And, finally, he dif-
fered radically from some of the
policies of his immediate predeces-
sor.
Yet the two great leaders—the old
and the new—marched side by side
the afternoon to memorial hall
and there President Eliot said that
the occasion was one of confident
expectation, of exaltation of the me-
mories of the past and of assured
hope for the future.
The parade of scholars and guests
was vastly impressive, headed as it
wa< by Ambassador Bryce of Great
Britain, and several other English
scholars in their scarlet gowns while
behind them came the scarcely less
subdued academic garbs of the Ger-
man. French, Austrian. Danish and
Cuban scholars.
American universities and colleges
also were well represented.
The distribution of the degree of
the university to the distinguish-
ed visitors formed an impressive
scene.
ing who is here in the interest ti
an industry that is wanting to lo-
cate here, and which employes aboot
100 people. He was talking oonft*
deatially to a newspaper man. Tte
reporter was asked to refrain froso
saying anything at present about tbe
mission of the gentleman here sad
in compliance with that request *"1
only say that there is a ahea MP*
for Bartlesville, and it isn't a bonus
hen, either.
Continuing, the gentleman said:
"The obstacle I have reference to
is the lack of houses and the
rentals demanded for those that axo
available. This condition exists not
alone in Bartlesville, but is true of
many of the towns I have visited
in this state, though it is more pn^
nounced here than in some others.
If our factory should come hen^
the forty of fifty families that would
come here could not find houses to
live in. They would not want to
come here and build at once, eve*
if they could, not knowing if
were going to like the place. I hav*
pretty thoroughly investigated tko
conditions along this line here aad
we are up against the propositi®*.
Rental are higher than the coot*
t ps warrant, and values are «ho
same. Other towns in this state aro
in fie same fix. There is but
chance of securing suitable cottage*
for jporkmen, such housQ; as work*
ing people wannt. I ln5 some
houses for rent—in fact there i
to be more in proportion of ..
than of the kind working people i .
It's a condition that confronts
and not a theory. Employes would
be willing to pay ten or twelve per
cent interest as rents, and many of
them would buy in a year or so.
Mind you, I am not tindin- fault
with this condition, and BartlesviHa
is no exception to the rule. What
I had in my mind is the question
of why some concerted action is not
taken to remedy this condition. Or-
ganize a building club and get busy.
I believe there are men here, who
• aaicu licit?, WQQ
regation of the freshmen and the if they were guaranteed a vear's ren-
tal. would build forty or fifty cot-
tages. suitable for the laboring man,
and I am sure that if they wouty
put the rents at a reasonable inter*
est on the investments, there would
be no difficulty in securing perm*,
nent tenants.
Ooodbye, Jerome.
New York, Oct. 7.—The contest
for the office of district attorney of
New York became a triangular one
today when the Democratic county
convention nominated George Gor-
don Battle, an organisation Tamma-
ny man, and former assistant district
attorney for the place.
William Travers Jerome is running
independently for re-election, whil
the Republican nominee is Charles
S. Whitman.
Tax Dodger ia Caught.
Fort Scott, Kansas, Oct. 7.—Jas
Hart, a councilman, pleaded guiltj
here today in the district eourt to
making false returns of his personal
property for taxation and was fined
$o0 and costs.
CONVERTS MANY TO
GOOD ROADS THEOST
Skiatook, Okla., Oct. 7.—Hon. C.
H. Pittman of Chandler, addressed
a large and interested crowd of Tulsa
county fanners at this place on tbs
subject of good roads today on tko
reunion grounds.
He seemed to have the matter w«ll
in hand, and delivered one of tin
most comprehensive and intelligent
explanations of the advantages to to
gained, at the trivial outlay, that
this community has ever had tto
pleasure and opportunity to listen to.
The audience showed their interest
by close attention, many men stand-
ing throughout the entire address,
cheering his remarks at the elose.
Many, after hearing the remarks)
went away confirmed converts to tho
good roads theory, and with deter-
mined ideas, as to how their votes
would be cast the nineteenth of Oc-
tober.
Offers Help for Road Building.
Guthrie, Oct. 7.—Governor Has
kell ha* written a letter to Oeorge
K. Clark, chairman of the boaid
of county commissioners of Lincoln
ounty, offering the aid of the state
prisoners t< help build the hard sur>
'ice road across Lincoln county as
soon as the prison wall at McAle*-
r, on which the convicts are now
mployed, is finished. Lincoln cono>
v was one of the first counties ts
lake application for prison labor
1 *t« b'T^wirs and one of the first
♦o wt results.
Mrs. C. H. Polley is in Tulsa to-
day.
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Booth, R. F. Morning Examiner. (Bartlesville, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 256, Ed. 1 Friday, October 8, 1909, newspaper, October 8, 1909; Bartlesville, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc143311/m1/1/: accessed April 27, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.