The Paden Herald (Paden, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1912 Page: 3 of 6
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GOMEZ PRESIDENT L
NAMED PROVISIONAL EXECU-
TIVE BY MEXICANS
IS STATIONED AT JUAICEZ
ASK RECOGNITION OF TI
UNUITED STATES
MISS ITALIA GARIBALDI
Claimed They Have a Defacto Govern-
Ment and Anxious to be Recog-
nised—Plans are to Liberate
People from Peonage
el Paso, Tex..—Emillo Vasquez
Gomez was declared provisional pres-
ident of Mexico shortly after noon
Saturday and established his provis-
ional capitol in the customs house in
Juarez, where Francisco I. Madero es-
tablished his provisional capitol May
10 last year. He appointed Col. Pas-
quale Orozco, father of the general,
minister of war, and Lie. Moreno Can-
ton of Yucatan minister of foreign
relations. Gomez came here from San
Antonio in response to a telegram
dated May 2 from Pasquale Orozco.
He reached here Friday night and
went to Jaurez shortly after roon
Sunday. A telegram from General
Orozco congratulating him on assum-
ing his duties was received by Gomez
shortly after reaching Juarez.
At noon Gomez crossed the line into
Juarez and was met by a delegation
of rebels who, while apparently wel-
coming him, took fcim to the custom
house where they were holding him
until they get a reply to a telegram
to General Orozco informing them
whether Gomez is to be held a prisou-
ei or released.
Washington.—Simultaneously with
the arrival of Senor Manuel Calero,
the new ambassador of Mexico to
this country, Dr. Policarpo Rueda, rep-
resentative of Emilo Vasquez Gomez,
provisional president of Mexico, ap-
peared in Washington to ask the gov-
ernment to recognize the belligerency
of the provisional government. Both
issued statements Sunday.
"The uprising has been confined to
the state of Chihuahua," said Am-
bassador Calero's statement, in part,
"in spite of what has been said to the
contrary, and is daily being repeated
in the United States. Disturbances
exist, it is true, in other portions of
the republic, not political in character
but are rather brigandage on a
more or less scale."
In his statement, which is address-
ed to the American people, Dr. Rueda
declares:
"The provisional government is a
fully organized political state, capable
of discharging the duties of a govern-
ment by enforcing the laws and pro-
tecting life and property, and meeting
its foreign obligations. It holds two
states and many cities and towns; it
has an established seat of govern-
ment; it is supported by the people
and is a homogeneous and popular or-
ganization, carrying on trade, manu-
factures and war."
Dr. Rueda says the provisional gov-
ernment is "in every respect a de-
facto government, worthy of recogni-
tion os such, and entitled to all the
rights of a belligerent."
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THE MISSISSIPPI FLOOD
SITUATION IS DESPERATE
No Breaks Reported Sunday, But
Heavy Rains Cause Rise ,ln
the River
CAPITAL LETTER
rights of the land office
are defined
THREE QUESTIONS SUBMITTED
OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL
PASSES ON SAME
RIGHT TO VOTE IN
ANY OF PRIMARIES
Old-time Election Controversy Is Now
Definitely Settled By At-
torney General West.
State Land Department Has Author-
ity to Give Preferential Right in
Cases Where Forfeiture Has
Been Made
Oklahoma City.—That the commis-
sioners of the state land office have
authority to give a preference right
on school lauds where a forfeiture of
lease has been declared; that the com-
missioners have no authority to in-
clude the preference right in the sale
of improvements, and that it is within
the discretion of the board either to
give or withhold the preference right
to release is the substance of an opin-
ion to the commissioners of the land
office by Attorney General Charles
West.
The commissioners submitted the
three following questions:
"Has the board authority, under the
laws of this state, where a forfeiture
has been declared, to give a prefer-
ence right?
"Has the board the right to include
ir\ the sale of improvements, the sale
of the preference right, and to give
to delinquent lessees the benefit of
what the preference right brings as
part of his improvements?
"Does the .releasing of lands on
which the lease has been forfeited to
the state carry with it the preference
right?"
The first question was answered in
the affirmative, the second in the neg-
ative, while in relation to the third,
the opinion holds that by reason of
forfeiture of lease on the lands, the
lands now are vacant, and if not "new
college lands" it is within the discre-
tion of the board, and under the gen-
eral rules and regulations of informal
applications either to give or with-
hold a preference right to release, but
if the lands are sold, the then holder
of the lease has the preference right
to purchase at the highest bid, or in
the event no bid is received, at the
appraised value of the land.
The question whether voters at
party primaries are bound by their
known past party affiliations, or
whether they may vote whatever tick-
et they may "select at the primaries,
was settled in an opinion by Attorney
General Charles West to John W.
Frederick, county attorney of Haskell
county. The opinion follows:
"Voters are not bound by past party
affiliations, but are free at each pri-
mary election to participate in the
nomination of the candidates of any
political organization represented.
Any voter having designated his party
and received his ballot, is thereby
limited to his choice to those partic-
lar candidates whose names appear
on the ticket called for."
There has been much discussion
relative to whether a republican could
vote at democratic primaries and vice
versa, and this phase of the subject
is settled in the opinion, no statute
providing that a man may not vote
at whichever he desires.
Withdraws Resignation
Oklahoma City.—The resignation of
President J. Alexander Moore of the
state girls' college at Chickasha,
tendered to the state board of edu-
cation, to take effect July 1, was with-
drawn Monday. The withdrawal was
made on account of a recent ruling
by the attorney general that the board
has authority to discharge Moore if it
sees fit. Members of the board would
not state Monday what their probable
action will be in this case.
Has a Historic Rifle.
Oklahoma City. — Police Captain |
William Slaton owns a 32-calibre Win- |
chester rifle that was formerly the
property of Kate Rogers, the noted
bandit woman who was a member of
the esse James gang in Missouri
after the war between the states. The
rifle is said to have cuased the death
of many men while it was held in the
hands of the Rogers woman. The gun
was manufactured in 1873, and al-
though it has been used a great deal
it is in perfect working order.
VETERANS KILLED
EX-CONFEDERATES WRECKED ON
WAY TO REUNION
NINE DEAD; 55 INJURED
SPECIAL DERAILED NEAR HAT-
TIESBURG, MISS.
Accident Happens on Straight Track
While Trains Was Going at
Rate, of Only. Thirty
Miles Per Hour
Hattiesburg, Miss.—Eleven persons
met instant death when the first sec-
tion of the New Orleans and North-
eastern "Van Zandt Confederate Vet-
erans special" enroute from Texas
to the annual reunion at Macon. Ga..
was derailed at a trestle a mile south
of East Abuchie, Miss., the locomotive
and five cars being badly wrecked.
Forty or more were injured.
Two of the unidentified dead are
babies, and three other victims that
had not been taken from beneath the
debris up to nightfall are believed to
be victims. Engineer A. W. Wood
ot Meridian, Miss., and two unknown
machinists were killed. The derail-
ment was on a straight line and the
train was running about thirty miles
an hour. The dead were brought to
Hattiesburg.
The dead:
JAMES S. DOWNING, Atlanta, Ga.,
president the Downing Locomotive
Draft Appliance company, who was
riding on the engine.
MRS. CHARLES HOLMES, Bay
Springs, Texas.
MRS. JAMES L. CAMERON, Hen-
Miss Italia Garibaldi, a granddaughter of the "liberator" of Italy, has
come to America as a delegate from Italy to the Methodist general confer-
ence in Minneapolis, and also to delfrver lectures in a number of cities. She
speaks English fluently.
EIGHT FLOODS
WOMEN FRANTIC WHEN WATER
RUSHES INTO TOWN
SEEK SAFETY IN FLIGHT
NIGHT ALARM CAUSES
A PANIC
city front. Ten thousand additional
sandbags were ordered filled and dis-
tributed through the commercial dis-
trict. Seepage in some places has
reached serious proportions and at
several points above and below the
city muskrats and crawfish have
done some damage to the levees.
The levee engineers Thursday night
declared that notwithstanding the in-
creasing high water, they have the
situation well in hand so far as the
city is concerned.
Vast Roll of Water Sweeps Over Farm
Lands in Louisiana—Railroads
and State Busy in Relief
Work—Other News
From Vicksburg, Miss., south to
New Orleans, the Mississippi river is
from half a foot to two and a feet
feet above any previous record stage.
An additional rise this week of ap-
proximately cne foot from New Or
leans north to Baton Rouge is pre-
dicted by the weather bureau.
Soundings made by United States
army engineers shows that this re-
cord breaking colume of water in the
big river is moving at the rate of 8.1
per feet a second, or approximately
one mile an hour, faster than ever
before recorded in the Mississippi's
flood territory.
Dangerous points in the levees in
Louisiana:
Baton Rouge, Bonnett Carre, twen-
ty-five miles north of New Orleans;
Morrison, Plaquemine, Scott's Land-
ing, Cypress Hall, New Roads and
third district, New Orleans.
River Sunday almost sationary from
Torras south.
Fourteen Bids In.
Muskogee, Okla.—Bids for the pine
ancj hardwood timber on the unal-
lotted timber reserve in the Choctaw
nation, comprising 479,904 acres, were
opened in the office of the supervisor
of the five civilized tribes. Fourteen
Mds were received, covering the entire
acrege and aggregating $1,586,875.83.
The appraised valuation of the lnad
and timber Is $1,565,362.15. The bids
will be forwarded to the secretary of
the Interior for approval before the
timber is sold.
New Orleans, La.—With an even 21
foot stage in the Mississippi river at
New Orleans Thursday night,
foot above all records, orders were
Issued by the Orleans levee board to
double the force of laborers which has
been engaged in blanketing the low
stretches of embankment along
Torras, La.—Rushing about the
streets like persons bereft of their
reason, women screaming and men
yelling as they hurried into their
homes and grabbed their children and
what articles of clothing and valuables
they could place their hands on in
their mad effort to reach places of
safety, and the stampeding of animals
turned loose by their owners to seek
half I safer places, were some of the chaotic
conditions that prevailed in Torras
Thursday night when the alarm was
sounded that the levee at the junction ,
of the Old and Mississippi rivers had
given way to the mighty pressure of
the flood waters before it
the
COTTON TREATING
COMPANY IS FORMED
New Process Renders the Stapl^ Fire-
proof Is the Claim of Inventors.
Oklahoma City.—The Southern Cot-
ton Protective association, incorpor-
ated by Oklahoma City men, has been
chartered by Secretary of State B. f.
Harrison, with authorized capital
J ftock of $50,000, all of which is sub-
scribed. Tne incorporators are Henry
| Scales, B. T. VanZant of Oklahoma
City; Homer R. Hurst, of Holdenville;
Mark H. Kesler, Clarence Owen, Dr.
j. C. Malir, J. V. Cabel, C. B. Haley, H.
V. Haley, Richard A. Woolridge and
P. V. Steddum, Oklahoma City.
The incorporation is formed as a
holding company, and eventually
larger organization will be chartered
for the erection of warehouses
throughout the cotton producing
states, where cotton will be treated in
bale, by a process on which the com-
1 pany has a number of patents, render-
ing it absolutely fireproof and proof
against weather damage, without in
any way injuring the staple.
The preparation has been perfected
after experiments covering a period
of several years by C. V. Haley. It is
believed that the process will revolu-
tionize the cotton warehouse business,
visually doing away with fire risks,
while it will be possible to ship baled
cotton on flat cars, the bales being
proof against flash fires.
Delegates Named.
Oklahoma City.—The following have
been commissioned as delegates to the
convention of Playgrounds and Recre-
ation Association of America, which
will be held at Cleveland, Ohio, June
5-8: Frank Blue, Ingersoll; A. R.
Mosley, Goltry; William Johnson,
Waynoka; W. w. Campbell, Alva;
Mrs. S. H. Harris, Oklahoma City;
Mrs. Weston Atwood, Oklahoma City;
Mrs. J. R. Bailey, End; Henry Miller,
Oklahoma City.
Summer Capitol.
Oklahoma City.—The "summer cap-
itol" will be at Ardmore for a week,
beginning Saturday, when Governor
Cruce will go to his former home to
spend a week. He will return for the
meeting of the commissioners of the
land office with sand operators from
Tulsa and Muskogee, Monday, May 13,
when protests againe-t the lease of the
beds of the Arkansas and Grand rivers
to the Builders' Satid and Gravel com-
pany will be heard.
Protest Overruled.
Oklahoma City.—The motion of Ol-
iver H. Akin to dismiss the protest
against his initiative bill, which aims
to eliminate 14 statq institutions,
was overruled by Secretary of State
B. F. Harrison. The hearing on the
protest will begin May 14. The mo-
tion to dismiss was filed on the
grounds that Akin had not received
notice of the protest within ten days.
1 derson, Tex.
| Two unidentified girls, aged 3 and
i 5, (Parents thought to be under
i wreck).
ENGINEER W. A. "Billy" WOODS,
Meridian.
FIREMAN C. C. JONES, negro, Me-
ridian.
DR. BOONE, MR. DENHAM and one
Other man from Mansfield, La., are
missing and thought to be under the
wreckage.
Five tfodies are positively known to
be under the wreckage.
Only two or three of the injured are
in a serious condition.
The scene immediately after the
crash was made particularly distress-
ing by the cries of the injured. Those
among the aged veterans who were
uninjured immediately went to work
willingly assisting in extricating less
fortunate comrades, carrying them to
improvised hospitals in the few coach-
es not overturned. Many of the in-
jured veterans did what they could to-
wards the more seriously hurt.
When the engine and tender left the
track at the short trestle, they were
followed by the baggage car, day
coach and three tourist sleepers.
These cars were badly splintered and
It Is regarded as almost marvelous
that any of the occupants escaped.
Hattiesburg citizens from every
walk of life met the train which
brought the dead and injured here.
The Kings Daughters, U. C. S., the
Masons and other benevolent organi-
zations and societies had active rep-
resentatives on the scene anxious to
care for the injured and the veterans
and their wives were made to feel
that they were In the hands of friends.
7^
CITIZENS OF GEARY
AID IN ROAD BUILDING
Second Gas Strike at Duncan.
Duncan, Okla.—A second and
stronger flow of gas was struck In the
Three Hundred Men and 100 Teams wejj be|ng drilled for oil on the Jones
Busy—Shops Are All Closed. ranch, ten miles northeast of here.
Geary, Okla.—April 30 was the ^fter the strike of ten days ago the
greatest day ever recorded in the I1.3- wejj ceased and drilling continued,
tory of Blaine county for good roads. an(j Wednesday's big strike, which ex-
Every business house in the town of ceecj8 a flow of 3,000,000 cubic feet per
Geary was closed. Merchants, clerks. (jay wa8 made at a depth of 650 feet,
lawyers, doctors and bankers, together , o'Hara & Bott, a Pittsburg firm that
with the farmers of the surrounding i ls doing the drilling, are elated over
country were making good roads. j find. They announce that the well
Over 100 teams and more than 300 wjjj ^e capped, and other prospect
men assisted in this good roads day, j weus started in the search for oil.
grading and building culverts for near-
ly fifteen miles of road .
The question of good roads has been
thoroughly discussed and figured on
here until the sentiment has become
so strong that nothing less than good
roads for a radius of fifteen miles in
every direction from Geary will stop
the tide.
Cartoonist Dies
New York.—Homer Davenport, the
cartoouist, died in this city of pneu-
monia. Mr. Davenport had been work-1 for ^e relief of Mississippi river flood
ing on the Hearst newspapers iu New sufferers was voted by the house com-
York. - j mittee on appropriations.
New Town Growing.
Westville, Okla.—Quite a town Is
growing at the new division point of
the Kansas City Southern, ten miles
north of Westville. It is known as
Watts. The town already has more
than two hundred inhabitants, most of
whom are tent dwellers. A bank, a
hardware store and a furniture estab-
lishment will open Wednesday.
$700,000 for Relief.
Washington—Nearly $700,000 more
Dale Special Referee
Oklahoma City.—Chief Justice John
B. Turner of the supreme court Mow-
day appointed Judge Frank Dale of
Guthrie as referee to hear the dis-
barment proceedings instituted re-
cently against E. I. Sadler. The ref-
eree Is instructed to report the law
and the facts not later than thirty
days from date of appointment.
Sadler is a negro lawyer of Guthrie
and is charged by the bar association
wHh improper practice.
American Is Jailed
Athens.—Notwithstanding the pro-
tests of the American and Greek con-
suls, the captain of the steamship
Texas, which was blown up a few days
ago in the guir of Smyrna, was forci-
bly removed from a Greek hospital to
a Turkish prison Sunday. The Turks
accuse him of spying in Italy's be-
half. The American counsul has no-
tified the embassy at Constantinople
and it is said the first secretary of
the embassy and the captain of an
American guard ship have been sent
to Smyrna.
French Aviator Fatally Hurt
Paris.—Jules Vedrlnes, foremost
Consolidated School Burns.
Hobart, Okla.—Nothing but charred
flying from Doual,
of the Nord, to Madrid
Killing in Sweetwater
Sweetwater, Texas.—Olayton Black,
recently tried and acquited 011 a
charge of attempt to murder "Bill"
Kchols in August, 1910, was shot and
killed by Echols 011 the street* of
Co-.homa, Texas
which
in the'department ne"'"K completion at a cost of
$6,000. While the fire Is believed of
incendiary origin, no reason for the act
has been assigned. There was very
slight opposition when the jv-opositlon
Writ of Mandamus.
Oklahoma City.—Application for a
writ of mandamus to compel the state
banking board to pay over $7,803.06,
representing a deposit in the Columbia
Bank and Trust company, was filed In
the district court by the Oklahoma
Bankers' Trust company. It is
claimed that the state banking board
has money in the state guaranty fund
to pay this deposit, but refuses to
do so.
Want Night Agent.
Oklahoma City.—Citizens of Ada
filed complaint with the corporation
commission against the Katy railroad,
asking that the raijroad be directed
to employ a night agent and operator
that place.
No More "Jim Crow."
Oklahoma City.—On request of cit-
izens of Kaw City, the Santa Fe Raii-
Benedict in Oil Business
Oklahoma City.—Omer K. Benedict
former editor of the Oklahoma City
Times, but more recently of the Ok-
lahoma State Farmer, has sold the
latter publication and will go to Tulsa
to enter the oil business.
Case Compromised.
Oklahoma City.—The corporation
tax case against the South Oklahoma
Town company, brought in the district
court of Oklahoma county by the at-
torney general's office, was dismissed,
a compromise having been effected.
The company paid 18 percent penalty
for the time the tax was delinquent,
amounting to $311.
Just Off Presses.
Oklahoma City—The Constitution
and Enabling Act, annotated, with ref-
erence to the constitution, statutes
and decisions of oth^r states and the
United States, has just been Issued
from the press. Th« work, which is
very comprehensive, was compiled by
Justice R. L. Williams of the supreme
court. It is published In Kansas City.
Hydro Complains.
Oklahoma City.—J. H. Hinton of
Hydro filed complaint with the corpo-
ration commission against the Rock
island railroad asking that the com-
pany be ordered to install a watering
trough at the Hydro loading yards for
the benefit of live stock shipped from
that point.
Sand and Gravel Famine
Muskogee, Okla.—There is a sand
and gravel famine in Muskogee and
scores of other towns In the state. In
Muskogee practically all building op-
erations, street paving and other con-
struction that requires sand and grav-
el have been suspended. This is be-
cause the high water has covered the
sand and gravel pits and the plants
cannot operate. Until the freshets
subside there is little chance to sup-
ply the demand.
to form a consolidated school district i roa<i company was authorized by the
of Olive Branch, Lone Star and Mack- ( corporation commission to discontinue
ay districts was proposed. The dis* j ««jtm Crow" Waiting room at that
trict is a part of the late Swansoa pUce
county.
Parole Granted
Oklahoma City.—A parole was
granted by Governor Cruce to Qus
Brashear of Oklahoma City, convicted
of selling liquor and nentenced to
serve sixty days In jail iu addition
to paying a fine of $300. The parole
is a temporary one, being granted for
sixty days only, on account of the ill-
ness of Brashears wife. The court of
criminal appeals recently directed
that an action for perjury be com-
menced against Brashear for alleged
false statements In his application for
a writ of habeas corpus.
Now the Tornado Drill
Wakita, Okla.—A tornado drill pat-
terned after the fire drills in the cit-
ies has been inaugurated by Miss Hat-
tie Moon, principal of the Enterprise
school near here. Recent storms in
Oklahoma inspired the plan. The
scholars are lined up on signal and
they run to the nearest tornado cave
which is a quarter of a mile away.
Robertson Away.
Oklahoma City.—Judge J. B. Rob-
ertson of the supreme court commis-
sion, .accompanied by Mrs. Robertson
left Sunday night for points in New
Mexico. Judge Robertson will return
Immediately, but Mrs. Robertson will
remain In the mountains of that state
tor several months in the interest of
her health.
To Farm Scientifically
Chickasha, Okla.—Seven hundred
and twenty-nine acres of Grady
county will be farmed scientifically
by th6 boys' agricultural clubs, of
which 354 acres will be planted to
corn, 125 to kafir and 250 to cotton.
Collision; Six Hurt
Westville, Okla—Head on collision
between f meat train southbound
from Kansas City on Kansas City
Southern and local freight train north
Six persons injured by Jumping. One
engine turned completely over twice
down an embankment against fence.
Killed By Train
Fort Smith, Ark.—James W. Mc-
Donald of Panama, Okla., was run
down near Panama and received In-
juries which later resulted in his
death in this city.
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