Sapulpa Evening Democrat. (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 30, 1912 Page: 1 of 4
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VOL. 2
SAPULPA OKLAHOMA WEDNESDAY OCTOBER ’>0 1912
BOND ISSUE
No 29
By Almost Unanimous Vote
Sapulpans Vote Bonds
Yesterday
ONIY TWENTY-
FOUR AGAINST
NEW MINISTER IS
NOW IN CHARGE
Rev. Tolman R. Rapsdale is Very
Favorably Received by Con-
gregation of First Meth-
odists of This City
Four Hundred and Eighty-Four
Citizens Cast Their Ballots
For Progress
The bond Issue yesterday won out
in regular democratic fashion—whicn
interpreted moans almost unanimous-
ly. And were it to do over again
no doubt It would be unanimous. As
was evident earlier in the day not
half a vote was cast, but this is
accounted for from the fact that ev-
erybody felt sure that the bonds
would carry anyway and there are
still several elections coming at
which those who laid off yesterday
can use their right of suffrage.
The election did not create any
unusual excitement and the voter
simply figured out the great benefit
to Ik- derived from the sale of the
bonds, wont to the polls and voted
for what he thought, was best for
the city and its future, and as soon
as the issue Is approved by the at-
torney general and the bonds are dis~
posed of, Sapulpa can get down to
business and accomplish something
that will be worth while.
What Sapulpa is mostly in need of'
to a dinner bucket brigade—some-
thing substantial that our people can
count on from day to day, and the
prime movers in this cause believe
that they have hit upon the one plan
that will accomplish the desired re-
sults.
The people of our little city are to
iM. congratulated upon the enterprise
shown in yesterday* election. It
demonstrated once more that there Is
still a progressive spirit dominant
among our people and with this fact
in evidence we may reasonably ex-
pect something good for Sapulpa in
the next few months
It was a complete and glorious vic-
tory. which means a step forward for
our citv.
The following is the vote
cincts:
For
58
70
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56
97
61
78
18
The Rev. Tolman R. Ragsdale, re-
cently assigned by the Southern Illi-
nois Conference to the pastorate of
the First Methodist church of this
city, to succeed Rev, Aaron D. Lind-
sey, who served the charge here faith
fully and well for five years, has ar-
rived with his family and they have
taken up their residence in the par-
sonage adjoining the church on Bast
First street.
Rev. Ragsdale comes from a charge
in Oklahoma and gave his inaugural
sermon to a large congregation at
the First Methodist church last Sab-
bath morning, by whom he was most
cordially received and heartily wel-
comed. He also delivered a second
sermon at the evening service. The
new rector made a favorable impres-
sion with hi* congregations. He is
an able man. Jt forceful speaker and
is convincing in his arguments in be-
half o the cause he represents. His
delivery is most pleasing and he gave
evidence in his sermons on Sunday
of being a deep thinker and thorough
sermonizer.
The people of Belleville regardless
o creed, will extend to the Rev. Rags-
dale a welcome such as no other peo-
ple but those, of our city know how to
tender the new comer. They will
wish for him every success in his new
field of labor.—Belleville Record.
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eastern star hose shower
Last night the Eastern Star gave
a hosiery shower at the Masonic ha
in the Klniej building. The shower
was given for the benefit of Mason-
ic Home at El Reno. One hundred
and thirty pairs of hose were rece ved
dozen handkerchiefs.
"r. .»<* *• «'••••
for
la-
teller and two 'shows, one
^ for the gentlemen,
dies ami one ror me »
About nine dollars was made from
_„ntR Delightful music
these amusements, wus i
furnished by Misses Arnold and
Ice cream, coffee and
There were two
cake were served, me
hundred present and a grand
had.
was
Wilkooson.
SNOW AT MONETT
Monott, Mo.. Oct. 30.—The
snow of the season l>cgan tall ng h
at an early hour this morning and
has been snowing intermittent >
day. R-prlngfield reports quite
heavy snow.
first
C. \V. Montelth hns gone to Deep
Fork on a two weeks hunting Dip.
FAVORS aD£ “EVER CONCEIVED IN THE GENERAL INTEREST*
wooosaw VMLSdP
Bandits Who Held Up Katy at |
Wirth, Missed Big Package
Muskogee. Okla., Oct. 30—That
the four bandits who early yesterday
morning held up the Katy limited
at Wirth. Okla.. overlooked 350,000
in currency In the express safe was
the statement made here tonight by
express company officials. Just how
muen loot tihe robbers secured the
officials declare they still do not know
but it is believed that it will reach
125,000.
The bandits are believed to be
safe in the fastnesses of the Winding
Stair mountains to the southeast of
the scene of the holdup. A small
boy saw four men answering the dc
scriptions of the robbers riding in
the direction of the hills early yes-
terday morning. Blood hounds track-
ed them for several miles to the
southeast and then lost the scent.
The section of the country into
v. i.ich the bandits are believed tr
have fled is the most primitive Ok-
lahoma. Here Indian trails answer
for roads. Many lawless |ieople In-
habit the hills. It is In these same
mountains that the bandits recently
committing robberies near Potenu.
sought refuge.
Authorities tonight declare that
they have definitely established the
'act that three of the men bonrdo 1
the train at Muskogee and •hit he
fourth waited a Wirth where he had
set the trestle afire.
TRIAL TODAY
! stole her from the arms of Charles
, Reuter. Joe Baker was the midnight
j assassin, who crawled up the stairs
I of the Reuter home in the dead or
! night, robbed poor Charlie Reuter
I of his money and diamonds and then
i his life, and Bud Bellow, driver of!
the murder car, confessed accom-1
plice, did you and me and this great
WILL SPEAR
AT BRISTOW
Closing Arguments in Renter11* a favor wlien he lold his 1,lacli Attorney R. B. Thompson Will
■Story of crime to you twelve men.'i ... , _
Address West Lnders Sat-
urday
Uncertain of Loot
Dallas. Tex., Oct. 30.—Carl Elliott
assistant to general manager W A
Webb of the Missouri. Kansas nn.l
Texas rallrond said that the railroad
officials had not been apprised of the
amount secured by the train robbers
who held up the M. K «• T. passen-
ger train near Wirth. Oklahoma. car-
1v this morning. General Manager
Webb Is not in the city.
The Calendar club of the LaHes
Aid Society of the Presbyterian
church will give a Halloween tea at
the home of Mrs. Lyford. 205 S.
Oak on Thursday afternoon from ' to
Ik. Everybody invited
Murder Case Being Made
ASKS JURY TO
FIX SENTENCE
From this Ligon skipped back to I
j the opening of the trial and dwelled
jon what wiinesses for the stale have'
I testified. He asked w^hy the defense1
j had not tried to explain the alleged
l system of signals between Mrs. Reu-
ter .and Mackenzie.
The address was closed with ano-
Attorney Thompson, of Sapulpa,
Took Floor This Morning—
Ligon’s Masterful Elfort
Attorney R. B. Thompson will ad-
dress itiie voters of Bristow and the
west end of the county at Bristow-
next Saturday afternoon, although
ther great outburst against the defen- a republican. It is understood that
ilants. Bakers poverty at the time Mr. Thompson will pay his respects
and iiis great desire to get some mo-j to a number of candidates on the re-
ney were mentioned. publican ticket, whom he thinks
The attorneys for the defense," ought not to be elected. At any rate
he said. -will come ivefore you plead- i that is the way we get. the story,
ing with tears in -their eyes for those and no doubt ‘Uncle Ben" will tell
two men, hurt the tears are bought- them some things that will open the
so many tears represent so many! eyes of the voters of that i>art of
blood soaked dollars. Ithe county.
"Before you make your decision wej ______
"ant you to think of the dead body-
in Peoria, and tilie widow here, around
whose willing shoulders the weeds
of mourning have been drailed. We
ask the death penaltv. If you fail U‘m,,U‘d ,0 ,ecure th<>lr ,reedom by
to bring In such a verdict you will slwln* ,he ,,ars and
: into the darkness. The leader of the
Attorney Ben Thompson of Sapulpa,
summing up for the defense, was
just beginning to rouse tne Jury now-
trying Guy D. Mackenzie and Joe
Baker for the alleged murder of
Charles T. Reuter, from the effective
eloquence of Nat Ligon, the young
assistant county attorney who pro-
ceeded him. when court adjourned [
yesterday afternoon.
The firwt eun for the state in the p,ace th*‘ val,M? of human lives in,
n gun ror the state in the . . . . gang was Will Hugh who is serving
closing arguments was touched off " u un,> at two hundred blood.'......________
DISCOVERED PLOT
Claremore, Okla., Oct. 30.—Prison-
ers confined In the county bastile at-
doliars each.-’
a year's jail sentence for attempting
a former Jail delivery. He was in
charge of ass-ault
yesterday afternoon, Ligon opening.
The young prosecutor spoke for n*?ar-; K Thol?peon j carcerated on a charge or assauu
iy three hours, going over his th^ry j ' *d , 'P . ‘dofpns<‘s OI’'.wi,h tatent to kill and will probably
in a detailed and convincing-manner.1 nnR p 0*- barely had passed
It was his second address to the '^e I>r<1lln,lnary stage when adjourn-
jury, his maiden speech being made! nient *a>' Even in the short!
time he spoke, he found time to vig-.
I be tried and srnt to the iienltentiaty.
At the same time attempt was made
in the recent Sweeney trial. First
the sjie-aker designated those he term-
ed the principals in the tragedy.
•'Mrs. Reuter." he said, "was the
heroine and villianess in the case, the
vilian was Mackenzie, her lover, and
the hero was Charles Reuter, with
whom «fhe lived even while his life'
hlood was dripping from hor fingers.
orously assail what he called cor-
in securing evidence, and to take a
fupt methods used by the prosecution
rap at the county attorney for "al-
lowing the booze joints free sway.
Thompson again took the floor this
morning. He wiH be followed in or-
der named by Ed Crossland, state;
tence to McAtester for life, having
iieen convicted of the murder
Guy Mackenzie playedthe role of a1 f harleton, defense, and Patrick
wolf in sheep's clothing, who visited
the Renter home enough while Reu-
ter wail there to keep -the gossiping
tongues of the neighborhood from
wagring, and then In tihe absence of
the husband, on-twined his serpent
like form around Mrs. Reuter and
Molloy. state. These arguments are
expected -to be finished today
of
Deputy Sheriff Starr, and his pal.
John Bttor, were in the Tulsa county
. jail, having licen taken there on ac-
count of the lack of proper facilities
here.
Several attempts have been made
in the past few months to saw out,
but have been frustrated on each oc-
casion.
An exchange says that ‘•Turkey's
fate Is In the balance." In flaming
The ladles Library Club will meet
tomorrow afU-rnoon at the club room
LUSTS THE
DEATH TAX CASTS
headlines. It always is as the on South Water street and -a good
Thanksgiving season approaches. 1 ettendance is desired and expected.
Former Sapulpa Boy is Found
Dead Near Monett
The following account of the death
of Walter Tate appeared In yester-
day's Monett, Mo.. Star. Mr. Tate
was for a time street car conductor
on the Sapulpa and Interurban road
and will be rememliered by many;
Walter Tate, aged 30 years, a resi-
dent of Pierce City, was found dead
along the south track of the Frisco
railway, one mile west of town Mon-
dny night about 11:15 o'clock. The
body was found by a young man nam-
ed Scotten, employed on the Worm-
ington farm, as he was walking home
at that hour. He ran and notified
the family with whom he was stay-
ing and the railroad and police offi-
cials were told that a body had been
found near the septic tank. The
body was found lying along the side
of the Incoming track and the cause
of death will perhaps never lie known
but It is possible the young mnn may
have been on a freight train and at-
tempted to get off before leactitug
the yards or was knocked from a
train In some manner. He was
either coming to Monett or leaving
here but the fact that he was found
on the south track caused the im-
pression that he might have been
coming this way. However, local
parties believe they saw him hi:.*
*»3t night and he had told his rather
at supper time that he was coming
to Monelt. What train killed him or
how he met death >viil never be
ascertained. It Is u. - i.:ui likely
that he was on ;!.e ! tnkr or riding
a car as he often, did and fell off.
His body was horribly mangled, one
leg cut off, a hole cut in the right
side of his face and many other in-
juries.
‘the ra' -DHii officials and On'‘:a5le
O'Dwyer notified Coroner Miller who
summoned a Jury composed of John
Immel, Mike Flaherty, E. E. Boothe,
8. M. Miser, Pete Wormington and
George Cope. After viewing the body
the Jury adjourned until this morning
when it was decided that Tate had
met his death by being struck by
a train.
The deceased was a single man and
lived with his father, T, Tate of
Pierre City. He had lately been em-
ployed as a motorman on a street ear
at Sapulpa and had been home bn:
a short time. Besides his father he
leaves a slater, Mrs. I. W. Palmer,
a half slater, Miss Ota Tate and a
brother, Geo, Tate.
The body was prepared for burial
by Boh Callaway and taken to Pierce
City this afternoon and the funeral
will probably be held tomorrow.
Western l nion Telegraph
Company Must Bay Ac-
cording to Assess-
ment
VALUE IN CONCRETE FORM
Coart Holds That the System is
Worth More Than Mere
Physical Value
The lightning this morning affected
the Gamewell Alarm system to a cer-
tain extent. Chief Stagg was out
thin afternoon remedying the evil
and ascertaining the amount of dam-
age done.
POWER
WAS Off
Lightning Struck Wires and Put
Power Out of Business
Lh'Vtnlng played havoc with the
wires of the SapuVpn filectric com-
pany for a time this morning and
the Democrat machinery was put
out of commission for about two
hours, causing a delay In getting out
the paper this afternoon. The line
which feeds the motor to the Linotype
suffered and consequently there were
numerous and divers things said (by
the bovs of course.) The damage
has been repaired and it is again
safe for MT. Wilmarth to come down
on South Park street.
Oklahoma City, Oct. 30.—In Its
contention -that it is subject to taxa-
tion in Oklahoma only as to the ac-
tual physical vatse of Its property
located within the state, -the Wes-
tern Union Telegraph Company lost
out in the supreme court, in an op-
inion by Justice Kane, bolding that
the entire property of an interstate
-public service corporation shall be
consideied as a unit for the purpose
of taxation.
The court did not approve-the find-
ings of J. M. Bverett, Who was ap-
pointed referee In this case. The
Western Union returned Its property
tr taxation at an amount slightly iu
excess of *100,000 per year. The
late board of equalization raised
this to approximately $1,000,000. In
his brief filed with the supreme
court Assistant Attorney General W.
C. Reeves contended that "the pro-
l>erty of the Western Union Tele-
graph conipauy in Oklahoma must
be a.sessed a/r taxation at such val-
ue as It had as an organized portion
of a largo whole, regarded not ab-
stractedly or locally but as a part of
a system operated in other states.
“Second such property must be
valued, not as so many poles, so
niuch wires, so many instruments, or
so mudh other property, in the ab-
stract, but must be valued in the
concrete, in the relation that such
property In the abstract bore to oth-
er property In the abstract, which,
being brought into relation towards
each other. Into a system, located
partly In this state and partly In oth-
er states, give each a concrete value
which was much greater than its ab-
stract value.
Third, the state in exercising its
taxing [lower, is not limited to the
assessing of the mere material things
used by the Western Union Telegraph
eomaany and Is not required to re-
gard its poles and wire of greater
value than they have been when they
reposed In lumber yards and factories
wi-th cost added for putting them in
place.”
The attorney general further con-
tended that the property of a tele-
graph company, engaged in Inter-
state commerce, might be valued as a
unit for th" purposes of taxation,
taking Into consideration the uses of
which It was put and the elements
making up the aggregate value and
a proportion of the whole might be
taxed in Oklahoma, but may include
the proportionate part of the value
resulting from the combination of
the names by which the business is
catrrled on.
Ti.e supreme court upholds the at-
torney general in practically all of
his contentions. Referee Bverett fix-
ed the valuation of the Western Un-
ion’s property for 1911 at *411,910.05
and for 1912 at *414,481.25. The at-
torney general filed an exception to
the referee’s report.
The appeals taken by the company
in the 1911 and 1912 assessment* were
consolidated and the opinion of Jus-
tice Kane covers the two cases The
1909 and 1910 tax eases are now pend-
ing In the United Staees court and
the 1908 case. In which the state su-
preme court upheld the state’s con-
tentions. is now before tbe United
States supreme court of appeals.
Judge W. H. Brown is In Bristow
today.
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Johannes, Fred C. Sapulpa Evening Democrat. (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 29, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 30, 1912, newspaper, October 30, 1912; Sapulpa, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1470034/m1/1/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.