The Enid Daily Eagle. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 327, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 15, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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THE ENID DAILY EAGLE.
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price five cents.
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N9 DIFFERENCES
"Progressive-^ A.nd "Kegu-
lars" J 'V'vTo
Presidt.
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GEI TOGETHER IS HIS kX
MM \\, OPTION 1ST WIN'S
IN (M)VKK\OirS HACK.
Columbia, S. C., Sept. 14.—With
over !«ll.ooo votes out of a possible
110.000 votes accounted for, returns
froHi tin* second primary indicate
the election- of Col. B. L. Blease of
Newberry, local optionist, for gov.
ernor by a small majority over C.
C. Featherstone of Laurena, state-
wide prohibitionist.
rfDEBAL GRAND JURY
LANDS ON "BRICK TRUST"
hanger of feelixg iiecom-
ING TOO FACTIONAL IS itec-
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ALL TO WORK FOR
Till: PARTY.
Beverly, Mass., Sept. 16.—No
difference between the so-called
"progressives" anil "regulars" will
be recognised by President Taft hero
after, but all party leaders will be
treated alike as republicans in the
matter of federal support. The
president's views to this effec*
were given in a letter today from
Secretary Norton to a republican
leader in Iowa whose name is not
disclosed.
"The people have spoken as the
party faces the fall elections," the
letter reads. "The question which
must be settled by republicans ev-
ery shade of opinion. Is whether
the differences of the last session
shall be perpetuated or shall he for-
gotten."
"President Taft realizes the dang-
er that in certain cases the expres-
sions of feeling were so intense a:-
to make it difficult in some in-
stances for factions to come to-
gether and work for the party, but
as he stated in his letter to th-*
republican congressional committee,
lie believes it can and should be
done. The president is confident,
that you will yourselves meet your
Real and state situation in this
spirit and will write to your friends
to do likewise."
FEDERAL SuC-lREASDRY
IELLER IS ARRESTED
CHARGED WITH Till IT OF $17.5,-
0J>0 GOYERNMENT MONEY
FEBRUARY IIMI7.
Indictments <'hinging Violation of
Anti-Triifct Law Are Itcturncd
Against Three Companies.
Chicago, Sept. 15.—The so-called
"brick trust" was indicted by the
federal grand jury late yesterday,
charged with violation of the Sher-
man anti-trust law. Four individ-
uals and three companies are named.
Those indicted are 1). V. Puring-
ton, president of the Purlngton Pav-
ing Prick Co. of Galesburg, ill.; C.
C. Parr, president of the Parr Clay
Co. of Reading, 111.; H. S. Benkert,
secretary of the MetropolIUfi Irv-
ing Co. of Canton, O.; William F.
Hrennan, Chicago sales agent for
I three companies. The companies
j represented by the foregoing indi-
viduals also were indicted.
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T. R. CANNOT BE PRESENT
AT BIG IRRIGATION MEET
Chicago, Sept. 15.—George W.
Fitzgerald, a former assorting tell-
er in the Chicago federal sub-treas-
ury, was arrested yesterday by dep-
uty United States marshals, charged
with the mysterious theft of $17.°..-
ooo from the sub-treasury on Febru-
ary 19, 1907. Fitzgerald was ar-
rested on a bench warrant based on
an indictment returned secretly by
a federal grand jury February 17,
Three days after the indictment
was secretly returned and suppress-
ed, on February 20, it was an-
nounced that the statute of limita-
tions had operated to stop possible
criminal action in the peculiar case.
Coincident with this ruse by the au-
thorities, secret service men were
detailed to watch Fitzgerald con-
stantly and make a rigid investiga-
tion of the former teller's financial
interests and affairs. Discoveries
made by these secret, service opera-
tives resulted in the order lor Fitz-
gerald's arrest.
NOMINATION OF GREY FOR
St. Paul, Sept. 16.—The nomina-
tion of John J. Gray to fill the va-
cancy at the head of the state dem-
ocratic ticket left by the refusal of
John Lind to become a candidate ror
governor, was made unanimous thi«j
afternoon. Cray is the former
mayor of Minneapolis and a well
known newspaper man of that city.
NEW YOKU I XCIlAXC3El>.
New York, Sept. 1 f .—As a result
ot ihe primaries hold in New Yo k
City Tuesday, Theodore Roosevelt
h s opponents of the "old
guard" hold practically the same
position they did before the primar-
ies were held. Friends of Roose-
velt held Manhattan, while the "old
guard" captured 109 of 142 dele-
gates in Kings county. The "old
guard" also claims the delegates in
Queens "tid Richmond counties.
Colonel Roosevelt Will Not Be
Able to Attend Congress, Which
Meets in Pueblo Sept. Htt-:>0.
Pueblo, Col., Sept. 15.—Colon 1
Theodore Roosevelt, in his Denver
conservation speech on August 29,
said: "The National Irrigation
congress is to hold a session in the
city of Pueblo late in September.
I am keenly sorry that I could not
have accepted the invitation to be
present. 1 must however be in the
east, at that time. But since I can-
not be present to express my keen,
long-held and deep-felt Interest in
the reclamation of arid lands by the
federal government, I desire to do
so now.
"There Is no more effective in-
strument for the making of homes
than the ^United States Reclamation
Service, and no government bureau
while 1 was president, bad reached
a higher standard of efficiency, in-
tegrity and devotion to the puV.l'o
we1 fare."
T: is Important bureau of fh*
government, so highly praised by
America's foremost citizen will be
presented at the Pueblo congress,
Sept. 20-30, by the director, F. 11
Newell, and statistician, C. J.
Blanchard.
Private irrigation is to be dis-
cussed by three ex-presidents of
the congress; lion. Frank C. Goudy
of Colorado; Dr. George C. Pardee,
of California, and Honorable Geo.
E. Barstow, of Texas, and the sec-
ond vice president of the congress,
Major R. W. Young, of Utah.
FEDERAL BUILDING CON-
TRACTOR INSPECTS SITE
That the federal building is soon
to be commenced is believed from
the arrival here today of the eon-
tractors for the construction of the
building. They arrived in Enid
this morning and visited the sit.'
of the proposed building.
Since the building must be com-
puted by October 1911 it will be
necessary for the contractors to be-
gin the construction of the building
at am early date.
I>. L. F. RANKS IS OX
TRIAL LX COENTY CO CRT.
In the county court this morning
the case of the city of Enid against
1). L. F. Banks, a negro lawyer, is
being tried. The case came to the
county court on an appeal from the
decision of Karl Z. Wilking, judge
of the police court.
Banks was arrV^'d for violating
the "jay" driving ordinance and up-
on conviction in the municipal court
was fined $2.00. He appealed the
case to the county court. This morn-
ing it was tried before Joe Jacobs
as special judge and went to the
jury at noon.
AS COUNTY JUROR
NAMK fol'xi) ox list select-
i;n i\\ commissioners.
Wife of Retired Ranker Discovered
by Deputy Sheriff—Sum-
mons Not Served.
May a woman act ns juror in the
county court?
Probably in some cases, but not
in Garfield county. Deputy Sheriff
Milligan has handed down an ex-
tensive decision in his official capaci-
ty in which In- rules in ihc negative
on every point of I his proposition.
When the jury commissioners of
this county selected the names of
persons from tin- tax roll who were
to act as jurors this year one op the
names they selected was that of A.
A. Murphy. Upon examination Dep-
uty Sheriff Milligan found that A.
A. Murphy was Mrs. Althea A. Mur-
phy, wife of John Murphy, residing
at 4 00 West Elm street. Mr. Mur-
phy is one of the most prominent
men of the city, a retired banker.
The summons had been issued and
handed to the sheriff to serve. When
Deputy Sheriff Milligan ascertained
the person to be served was a wo-
man he laid it aside.
Asked whether he would serve the
summons, Mr. Milligan stated that
be would take judicial knowledge of
the fact that the person named in the
instrument was a woman and would
not serve the summons.
"If women were allowed to vole,"
suggested the deputy sheriff with a
smile, "I might stand ready to be
convinced they were eligible to act
as Jurors but until that time such
service is not in their sphere."
ToniRht and
* generally fair. *
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MAINE ELECTION SURPRISES
CONNECTICUT REPUBLICANS
Hartford, Conn., Sept. 15.—The
result of tli? Maine election came
as great surprise to tile republi-
cjiii leaders of Connceiicut ami t.'ie
effect, has l'C( n to alter somewhat
the plans as to makeup of the
state ticket which the convention
will nominate Thursday. The de-
sire is to strength*)) the ticket
by altering the state candidates,
which, save the gubernatorial place
had been prepared as acceptable to
the convention.
The best, prediction on the- out-
come of tin vote for governor was
that, not over twenty votes woui 1
separate ex Lieutenant Governor E.
J. Lake and Ch.nles A. Goodwin
HASKELL MAY ESCAPE
Saye lie is Relieved From Fraud
Charges By Fxpirntion of the
Statute of Limitations.
Oklahoma City, Sept. 15.—Gov-
ernor Charles N. Haskell and his
attorneys are jubilant over the dis-
covery of a late court decision
which they are sure will gain free-
dom for the governor from the land
fraud charges contained in the in-
dictment. against him which is to
he brought up for trial at the
GRAND JURY AT WORK ON
ALLEGED ELECTION FRAUDS
coming session of the federal dis-
trict court for eastern Oklahoma at
McAlester. O- '.ober 16.
The governor gained knowledge
of the decision Friday. His son.
Norman, was the first to advise him
of the existence of the opinion ami
later lawyers from :nll parts of the
I state, who had read the decision 'n
an issue of the federal reporter
Secretary of Board is First Called which has just been published, fired
to Testify in Oklahoma City i i citations from the decision.
Investigation. The decision was rendered in a
Wyoming case by tli«■ St. Louis cir-
Oklahoma City, Sept. 15.—D. S. cuit court of appeals June 18, 1910 j
Levy, secretary of the county elec-
tion board, was the first witness
called before the grand jury to tes-
tify concerning the alleged irregu-
larities in the recent primary elec-
tion. Ilia testimony, it is believ-
ed, will be for the purpose of lay-
ing a premise upon which the re-
mainder of the testimony will be
based. It will show the difference
between the original returns in the
several Oklahoma City precincts
and the totals secured on a recount
when a demand was made by the
candidates.
PLEADS Gl'ILTY TO
GRAND LARCEXV.
New York, Sept. 15.—Adolph
Rothbarth of the firm of Rothbarth
& Co., hop dealers, with offices in
London. Frankfort and St. Peters-
burg, pleaded guilty to the larceny
of $10,000 from the Mercantile Na-
tional bank, and was h< Id for trial
in an equal amount of bail.
Ellsworth C. Lonabaugh and two
associates were tried and convictcd
of Wyoming land frauds which
were even more apparent than thoB<
charged against Haskell.
They pleaded that they were not
subject to prosecution under the
relief given them by the statute of
limitations. They were refused this
relief and carried the case to the
circuit court of appe Is on error.
The appellate court reversed the
decision of the lower court and its
ruling applied to Haskell's cas'1
would bar him from prosecution for
frauds charged against him after
September, 1901.
The present indictment was
brought against him in 1909. Ac-
cording to the governor's way of
looking at it, the indictment if,
therefore, five years too late.
It is probable that his attorneys
a' the opening of the trial in Mc-
Alester will move to quash the in-
dictment. and will cite the ruling
ftf the higher c6urt.
CONSPIRACY INTENT
RECOGNIZED BY JURY
JOINT INDICTMENT IS RETl RX-
ED IX WICHITA STAMP CASE. .
lulled Stntrs Authorities Pleased
With Character of the Evi-
dence Submitted.
Wichita. Kan., Sept. 15.—United
States authorities, who have battled
for many months in an effort, to
break up tin* system of wholesale
postoffice robberies in Kansas, were
highly elated yesterday afternoon
when the federal grand jury return-
ed indictments against L. H. Nafiz-
irer, former president of the Fourth
National bank, Frank S. Burt, for-
mer chief of the Wichita police, und
John Callahan, alleged leader of a
band of outlaws, and an ex-bank
burglar.
The sleuths of the postoffice de-
partment have contended that In or-
der to crush out of business the
yeggmen who have done the actual
breaking of government safes in the
little postofflces that the whole ef-
fectiveness of flie government's
fight, rested upon getting the *'men
higher up."
Uncle Sam's officers arrayed
against postoffice robbers in this
district have comprised J. I*. John
ston, inspector in charge of the dis
trict, and his assistants, John A. El-
vln of Wichita, C. A. Mills of Topeka
and A. M. Stedman of Salinn.
These men therefore rejoiced in
the effectiveness of the evidence they
have gathered, and which was pre-
sented to the grand jury, when tiie
grand jury not only returned indict-
ments separately against the several
men who have been „p/'ntioned in
the accusations of selling stolen
stamps, but also returned a joint in-
dictment recognizing their conten-
tion that these three men had con-
spired together in a system to de-
fraud the government.
This joint indictment presents the
amazing supposition that at the time
of the alleged crimes a leader of a
gang of safe-crackers was in league
with the head of the police depart-
ment, who would he expected to be
fighting him. and also was in league
with a banker who enjoyed the con-
fidence of the whole community.
Such a supposition which might
be suggested by the separate ac-
cusations that each of theso three
men had handled the same stain (is
in succession is specifically alleged
in the separate indictment which ac-
cuses the three men equally as being
working parts of the system which
defrauded the government of its
porperty.
After the return of the indict-
ments, John Callahan, being unable
to furnish the required bonds of
$20,000, was taken to the Sedgwick
county jail; Mr. Naftzger immediate-
ly furnished bonds of $10,000 sign-
ed by many prominent men, and
Frank Burt held in $10,000 bonds
was permitted to arrange for the
filing of a surety bond this morn-
ing.
Edward Earle and Roy Temple-
ton, charged with robbing the post-
offices at Hope and Burdick, were
taken to jail, lufng unable to fur-
nish bonds.
The trials will probably be taken
up at the next session of court in
March. J )
tiMiOli \lu> c*lN\ F.VHOV
Denver, Colo.. Sept. 15.—The
democratic stale convention of Col.
orado will be held here in the Audi-
torium Thursdav for the purpose « f
selecting ;i full state ticket.
Governor John F. Shaforth of
Denver and Dr. B. L. Jefferson Be«'k
the nomination for governor, tnd
Wednesday each candidate clalmod
\ ietory.
COAL MINERS WILL PRO-
BABLY RATI FT CONTRACT
Kansas City, Sept. fl !Menat«s
representing the coal miners of Mis.
souri, Kansas. Arkansas and Okla-
homa mot today to ratify the con-
tract with the operators as agreed
upon last week. It was announced
at noon that the action win bo tn-
ken at tiie afternoon a«ssion and
that the contract would probably be
ratified without oppoglti'in.
FEDERAL COURT ROSY
witnesses tEntity to tin
worth less ness of
APPA rates.
Prosecution Will Conclude Its Evl
deuce Tomorrow, It is
Believed.
When the trial of C. L. Jackson
was resumed in the federal court
this morning the government again
produced witnesses In support of
the allegations that tin4 burner w
worthless and would explode.
A. A. Crabb, of Weatherford
Texas, told of buying a contract to
sell the burners and having sold
a f< w of them. After operating
tin* stove for a few days, he sal*'
It blew up and lie was struck
a cap from the stove, lie testifh
that lie received back all of th
burners that he had sold sin
they did not give satisfaction.
The prosecution produced a half
dov.en or more other witnesses all
of whom testified that the burner
did not operate perfectly and ex
plosions were frequent. One ques-
tion that the counsel for defeus-
put to nearly every witness this
morning wae whither or not tin
had appeared beioro tin- grand jui
and if so whether.they had be
sworn more than once.
Frauk Calloway, of fil Reno,
who has conducted the cross exam
ination of all o ftlie witnesses slm
the trial began, was suffering frc
a bad throat this morning .. .1 At
torney Sturgis conducted the cross
examination of the witnesses.
it is expected that the prosccu
tion will close its evidence some
time tills evening or tomorrow and
then the defense will produce wit-
nesses. Thus far only eight wit
nesses have been sworn to testify
for the defense.
The defendant Jackson is takln
active interest in the progress of
the case and be frequently coache
his attorney as to some fact which
he wishes drawn from the witness.
At the afternoon session of court
L. Cordell was adduced a witness
for the prosecution. Cordell is the
chief clerk of the Oklahoma Refill
ery at Oklahoma City and gav<
light on the quantity and character
of crude oil which was shipped to
the Little Crater Crude Oil Burner
Company. He testified that durin
a given period of time they shipped
the company twenty-; wo barrels of
oil, fifteen of which was solar oil
and seven crude oil.
ROOSEVELT 15
Either For Governor Of New
York or The State
Chairmanship
CASHIER RETURNS HOME
Abilene, Kan., Sept. 15.—Mrs
John A. Lack, wife of the missing
bank cashier returne«l today. She
said she left her husband in New
York Monday. She said she had
supposed that nothing was wrou
with the bank except tin- book3
were tangled, until Flack proposed
going to Galveston, saying that they
would be afte r him. She told him
they must return and he refused.
She started home alone. She sai l
lie had only two hundred and sixty
dollars. She is prostrated at the
home of a neighbor. Mrs. Flack
wili claim only iiersonal effects.
The hank was reopened tod°y
for continued liquidation. Tho
sheriff and Plnkerton detectives are
on the trail of Flack.
ML HELP ORAFT PLATFORM
Bt T WILL KI .FI SE TO %(CEPT
tNt STATE IIOXOlis—I MIES
XOT AXSWEIt B\BXE8'
THRUST,
Oyster Bay, N. Y , Sept. 15.—.
Theodore Roosevelt will not be a
candidate for governor of New York.
Theodore Roosevelt will not ac-
cept the chairmanship of the repub-
Ihnn state committee.
Theodore Roosevelt will net siy
whether or not ho will accept the
temporary chairmanship of the stato
convention If he is nominated to dis-
place Vice President Sherman.
Theodore Roosevelt will help to
draft the republican state plat-
form.
These tilings were made known by
Mr. Roosevelt Wednesday. Com*
Hu nting ( u Tuesday's Now York
primaries lie said:
"Naturally I am gratified at the
result,'• he said. "It was no" less
than I expected."
Colonel Roosevelt was asked
about recent reports that he might
accept the state chairmanship and
that an effort might be made to
force the nomination for governor on
him. lie said there was no possibil-
ity or such a thing and added that
he could say nothing more than
whnt he had ^<1 on his return from
Europe three months ago and had
repeated sineo that time In dozens
of letters, that ho could not under
any circumstances accept either the
state chairmanship or the guberna-
torial nomination.
Colonel Roosevelt refused to
make any comment on tfie state-
ment issued Tuesday by Willianl
Barnes, Jr., of Albany, in-which Mr.
Barnes said Colonel Roosevelt was
a dangerous man. Tl\ colonel Is to
go tomorrow to Riverhead, N. Y., to
speak at the Suffolk county fair.
TWO LDSE LIVES IN
ENGINE EXPLOSION
WHEN >L, K. & T. PASftKXCiER
ENGINE BLOWS i P, CRHW
is w ipi«:i> orr.
Coffeyville, Kan., Sept. 15.—Run-
ning 35 miles an hour, a Missouri,
Kansas and Texas passenger engine
which left here at 1:45 this morning
blew up near here, killing the en-
gineer, Horace Hollo way, and fatally
Injuring th.' fireman, L. E. Goodrich,
both of Parsons, Kan. No passen-
gers or other members of the crew
were injured. Some were not even
awakened in the birtHs. The
mangled body of the engineer was
found in a pasture 2ft0 yards from
the track. The fireman was found
unconscious beside the train. Of-
ficials are unable to acocunt for the
accident.
PACKERS ALI/OWLI) DELAY.
Indicted Reef Barons Need Not
Plead Before October 1.
Chicago, Sept. 15.—Representa-
tives of the federal district attor-
ney's office and <eunsel for the in-
dicted packers hold a conference at
which it was agreed that the paek-
rs would not be required to plead
before October 1. Attorney Gener-
al George W. Wlckershaw departed
for Washington, following a confer-
with United States District At-
torney Edwin \V. Sims regarding
the prosecution of the beef offic-
ials.
Jt IK3F STEEX TO FAIRVIEW.
District Judge Steen left yester-
day for Fairview to hold a short
term of the district court in Majors
county.
R. D. Hurley, who makes his
home in Enid with his grandmoth-
Mrs. II at tie Bates left this week
for Watonga, where he will spen I
the winter with an aunt and attend
the public school.
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