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i la under the conditions fxletlng;, and,
moreover, that It* action wns In the higjji
est deicrte beneilclal to the Iptereatw or
' WnTW RTftMi
of tlie intero -canfc canal. It would be
well for those who are pessimistic us to
o ir action in peacefully recognizing the
Republic of Pdn -tflJ whiL« v «' \«v, fully
T rotertefl the transit frOm |nvaai>Mi nf;3
disturbance. to recall what has been don*
In Cuba, where we intervened even by
force on general rounds of national In-
terest and duty, when we interfered it
was freely prophesied that wo intended
to keep Culm and admin inter it for onr
own interests. The result has demon-
p!..11"<! I!i singularly conclusively t shlon
the t .laity of the proph*cle-«. Cira
Is now an Independent republic. Wo
governed it in ltd own interests for a
few vsars. till it was able to stand alone,
hnd then Bturtt'l it upon its career <>*
sclf-covernment and Irmepend* a e,
granting it all neees.*ary aid We have
received from Cuba a * fa I of two nival
Ht itlons. so xitiuiteQ 'that they In 110 poc
Kible way menac't the Mberty ot the isl-
and. and yet a£rve e.a Important d -fenaes
♦or the Cubati i eople, as well ns for our
own people, against possible foreign at-
tach. The people of Cuba have leon lm-
mea. urenhly benefited by our interfei-
enc< in thelt .behalf, at il our own gain
has been great. So will It be with Pan-
ama. The people of tho Isthmus, and an
I firmly l<elleve of the ad;l u -ht p m t
of ("Vntrnl and South Ai. "i: t. will be
greatly benefited by the building of the
cmml and the guarantee of p-)ice ana
order alone its line; and hand in hand
with th«' benefit to them will p • the
benefit to tis and to mankind. Uy r ir
prompt and decisive action, not OJit>
pave our interests and those of the world
at large been conserved, but wo have
forestalled compilcatlo; f which were
likely to i.e fruitful in loas to o.Ui'Sfclviva.
and in bloodshed and suffering \o the
people of the Isthmus.
Instead of using our forces, as we were
Invite.I by Colombia to do, for the two-
fold purpose of defeating our own rights
and interests and the intere-i - of the
civilized world, and of < ..inpelling tho
submission of the people of the Isthmus to
those whom they regarded as oppressors,
we shall, as in duty bound, keep the
transit open and prevent Us invasion.
Meanwhile, tho only question now before
t'S is that of the ratification of the
treaty For It is to be remembered that
a failure to ratify the treaty will not
un<*< what haa been done, will not le-
flore panama to Colombia, and will not
niter our obligations to keep the transit
open across the lathtnus, and to prevent
any outside power from menacing tins
transit.
it seems to have b*en assumed in cer-
tain quarters that the proposition that
1he obligations of article ;if> of the treaty
of 1 &4*; pre to be considered :J adheri g
to ond following the sovereignty of the
Isthmus, so long as that sovereignty is
not absorbed l > the UnUcd States, rests
upon some novel theory. No assumption
could be further from the fact It Is by
no means true that a state in declaring
its independence rids itself of nil the
treaty obligations entered Into by tho
parent government. It is p mere coinci-
dence that this question was ome raised
in a case Involvirg the obligations of'
Colombia as an independent state under
n treaty which Spain had made with the
I'nit^d Ptates many years before Bpi.n
ish-American independence. In that ca«e
Mr. John Q.nncy Adams, secretary of
state. In nn Instruction to Mr. Anderson,
our minister to Colombia, of May i!7, li&a,
su Id:
"By a treaty between ti e United Slates
and Spain concluded at a time when
Colombia Wfn a part of the Spanish do-
minions • • • the principle that iree
ships makes free goods was expressly
recognized and established. It is assert-
ed that by her declaration of Indepen-
dence Colombia has been entirely re-
leased frorn all the obligations by which,
as a part of the Spanish nation, she
was bound to other nations. This prin-
ciple is no! tenable. To all the engage-
ments of Spain with other nation-- *•'
PRESENT DAY
An Eloquent Discourse by Rev.
Frank E. Day
fr «ing t at 11
id Interests
was uffer* ird is: net) cv
tt optional CO'. tlllSr t ill i •'i t'
pr Ise rtlpulatleri 10 which h* i >-
ar,.l a similar pas:tion v. •
United States v.-itb •
Ir.g obligation upi : r e .: nd« "
of "exas of comnwi . at:
bodied ill prior tr«'. ■ - v v. . •
United States and Me*:. when
formed a part of the latter untry
In the presort • It b- nn s«u
go so far. Kv u' ii be ad.oitte.
f.rlnr o£ a i.'Oliiio.. -1
rial complexion generall> do '.ot
i ew state 'orr-- '. > it i
deniable that s:;p iona 1 ti .... ,
application ti. th- i rrltor> «••• •
the r w state eo iinue In foi * ..
binding ipon the ri
that
Th
•">: • of
riu . - .kni continue in force without,
regard to changes in government or in
sovereignty. This principle obviously ap
piles to that part of the treatv of IS ♦;
which relates 1o the Isthmus of Panama.
In conclusion let nte repeat that th<
question actually before th'* government
is not that of the recognition nf Pan-
ama as /in independent republic That ir.
already an accomplished feet.
tion. and the only question. Is whether or
not we shall build nn Isthmian canal.
I transmit herewith copies of the lat-
est notes from the minister of the Re-
public of Panama to this k - intent
and of certain notes which have p.,.-sed
betwVen the special envoy and of the
Rcnubllc of Colombia and this g vern-
ment.
THl lOnORR R< iOBEVKLT.
White House, January 4, 1304.
t h
Guarantee Committee Have to
Sue Sub-Ti'iers
±>r. a rank E. Day *8 sermon subject
yesterday motrning. ct the First Metho-
dist church was, "Present Day Inspira-
tion." The text was: II Corinthian*, N .
fi: w he that hath ought us for
tho • It" cmne thing is tlixl; who :
hath given unto us the earnest of the
spirit." lie said in part:
"We speak much of inspiration, Vuu
tho impression wade upon tlie popular
uiind. < act'.y convex a., in. t id in
eluded in the term. In a way. we g\th
C<r tlie notion tliat back of Word
there is an influence, quite distinct from
those force* which ot. nin in rational
ji.-occsse aiul . e sentences of Holy
Writ are assumed to contain a mean tig
b) it, whicn interprets to man, what
would otherwise bo a universal riddie.
In that respect, we are correct, and with
that 'premise, v e can easily see why th.1
reign of that inspiration is i! el. \
books will be added to he Bible, be-
cause < ie purposes to be snrved in the
inspira .on of mtn's pen, have been ac-
complished. i tom Moses to John the
Baptist, the race held the truth in un-
righteou r.es*, and tne twisted and eon
fused ideas whit seized the human
mind in respect to Qod, which were \ e
Bcnteu in" all forms of heathen religion,
ex proas the necessity of some force out
side of reason to give to man the true
conception of deity. The Hebrew Scrip-
tures. absolutely without a companion
in literature, are presented to us as
(Jod's revelation of Himself, ami that
strange nation whose progenitor vas
Abraham, stands forth in time, as a peo-
ple. w nohc notion of God, not only con
trusted with the prevailing ideas of the
eenturie*, but. aj well ,beta the model for
the highe-t ideals o. the divine aftwr
centuries have made ine Old Testament
the most ancient of intelligible litera-
ture.
"Tne necessity for that literary in-
spiration passed away, when the life and
teaching of .leaus Christ was safely
committed to historyt jn indentructiole
records. tlien tie-was born/ no i.e e
sily longer evicted fur'f r J;!/etie 'vision
to preserve the true idea t>/. tJod, ftir
Jesus himself, i? the "express i iiage of
the Father." He thus move- before us
in every act of his divine lflfe. A thous-
and doubts may {possess us. but a care
ful perusal of Old TestauiuikC prophecy,
revea!s the Nazarene to be the exact
fulfillment of_every word of Isaiah, ant
the essence of that deity vl'io e personal
ity the Jewish people, i>\ an addition
to reason's processes, proclaimed in e\
ery book of their sacred writings. The
biographies of .!e*us, and those su' l:me
statements of christian teaching which
the apostoli ej>istles present to us. com
pieted the fulfillment of those necessi-
ties, wldcli the helplessness f<f human
reaaon created. As the W.l Testament
gave to the world before Jesus' birth,
the notion of God that man's reason
could not retain, anil having lost, cot-41
rot regain, ho the New Testament pre-
serves to aJl titn? the character of that
Christ, whose appeti.ance was the ful-
fillment of every .Jewish prophecy,
whose s .nship to God is asserted by the
nobility of his life contradicting every
human tendency, and whose persistence
in the christian centuries, hws maintain-
ed the perfect i lea of God, as his teach-
ings have In id the found .it ions for those
best ideas of man, which have taken an
unyielding crip upon human thought.
"Hut .ntion' involves uore than
a reeogc of f * ces which united to
produi e the greatest reli^i is libran*
of knowledge known to man, and all
sufficient to give to that 1 ' i ititre tit *
authority of the inerrant religious truth.
An ins; iiation continues which b!es?es
and lilt.? mankind, to a level of life and
hope, to whij.li mere ueason is impotent
to elevate the race. For, tic only thing
for which reason is insudi-ient. i~ not
the deto initiation of correct re i titu:.-
ideas, ;.nd the true conce, ti. ri of < "
There are many other exigencies which
ratiouaiinm cannot meet. Alerc n .
eannot account for n thousand fact - ot
undisputed hist«i\. The biggest stride-
in progress v.ere not taken at the in
(El R:
-be .
'the case of the V. v (
committee acainst v
collection of
heard bef<n
A number t tii > .
the nerv railroad ri«.>'
ing refused to pay *
account of various re
tee brought suit to
jnent of the same.
The ease was tried befoi
a verdict was rendered in
plaintiff on the ground t.
seribera agreed to pay <>n
soon a" contract 1 enter I i
1 he railroM by tke
was tried before a jur Att( ...mi-
win and Reid repi -'.'inp :ilT
and Baldwin an 1 Marsh the nt.
e understand the caps ap
p—led to ihe district court
htatement of facts, to test puic th.
legal proposition.
GIRGUMSTANTiAL
EVIDENCE
(Ardmore Ardmoiiti '
Pome three years ago W. 1*. Runn t-
tom was killed on his farm n I n
and to day llcnrv Pruitt of near ( nii.-h
was arretted, charged with the oWense.
Rubottom and some of his neighbors
weie having trouble about cattle nreak-
ing into the fields. Defore day ouc
morning while Rubottom was ru.ming
cattle from hit field he was shot with a
Winchester rifle and died instantly. The
murderer mode good his opegp', having
for circuim«tantial evidence the traiks of
the horse ho was riding and also in his
haste dropped his hat.
W. E. McLemore began work on the
case, and so perfectly fanned was the
murder that but slow headway could
be made.
Henry Pruitt, who is charged with tho
eriuie, is well known in Ardmore, having
formerly lived here and is well known
throughout the country.
His friends will bo slow to believe
that be is the guilty party.
Pruitt is now in jail and will likely
remain until hit trial ma court is now
In session.
a power sufficient to produce the won
aer of life's ^natomj' and the intracacies
of the mental cpiffeiodincss, has form
ed tis It la not though to ay 'Inflate
powrc ha6 created us.' We lony t<J know-
that we have been njadf for omethiug.
Wo dctua/id that there shall be a pur
pose served in o\y crtfttipn. The simp-
lest in man's histofy of manufac-
ture declares to us t^at intelligence
ever entertains a purpose in all Its
plans. We do not build shelter, simply
to employ our hands, but to protect us
from the blast We do not invent ma-
chines simply to give play to the Inhcr
rent power to make, but to serve soma
necessity of man, in commerce, in fac-
tory, in locomotion, or in home comfort.
The fact of creation supgeste the furth-
er and greater fact of de«.gu. And Paul
struck the key note of every waiting
and wearied human heart, when he tuned
his strings ami struck the major chord
of hope in the declaration that we at.'
tho creation of God. far that buriei
deep in the heart universal, the intui
tion, tho axiom—'if we are created, we
.■re created for something.' t), how oft
has this thought barred the door to de
► pair, and '.ighted the lamp to guide our
feet out of Despond's deep slough into
the pi'.ths of peace.
"We may note again the precision of
I ho hope which the text iuspires. It
involves the correct reading of the verse.
1 have \istened to learned doctors of di
vlnitv misquote the language of Paul
here given, and I doubt if half of an av-
erage audience would detect the error.
For a score of years I heard men repeat,
and oft repeated myself, these v.urds
thus: 'Now He that hath wrought for
lis tuis selfsame thing is God.' And
multitudea have gotten ooinfoit out of
that sentence. But it isn't Paul's \ iew.
TI - words are all there, but a slight
disar.nrvement gives an utterly foreign
ido.i. lie said: 'Now he that hath
wrought US for Hi." pelf tame thinu is
Gotl? Heaven was always. In God's
presente. the light and love and joy of
the celestial empire of infinite love ever
had being. Rut man is created. Heaven
is not made for him: he is being fashion
ed for heaven. That is the object iht>
creator had in breithiug life, into* the
race, and that is the suL'.i.-'e purposa
which actuated Jesus in the labor of
(redemption, bv which the wreck
wrought by sin. is saved in restoration
to the destiny set for u^in the purposes
which p'ayed in the counsel of the Trin-
ity. 'Alien in the picture drawn bV MdbTV
we hear the decreet * Let-us mako wt r
in our likeness end in our imajjp and let
him lwve dominion. The visi..n painted
by this tremendous thought has fle rVed
many a palsied hand' and strengthened
many n fainting hesuL., .\V.Mlfe,jepga,ted..
in <-trancre prophecy of this approaching
death in the victormus a-saull" 'lift
troups were about to mike nptni Qnvheer
the line out of (Jrev's 'Klegy Written
fn a Country Churchward*!
'The paths of glory lead but to the
gir ave.'
but a view like Paul's fills 1he fr*svo t<*
the level of our path, and we walk upon
it. without a «hi.'. of'fear. while bey on J
where onee the shadow find the glqom
aweited, the sky is lighfed with Hope's
radiant morning dawn.
"And heaven is revealed to tts in
what we are. God spends little time ia
the Word to tell us of the details of the
heaven life or the beaut iew of the city
which hath foundations. But onr own
consciousness pictures both the life and
.ts environs. We read it at> the student
of prehistoric peoples reads their cus-
toms and their habits. I have read a
volume which presumes to tell of the
life and haoits of a race called the
Mound Builders. I have looked upon
those strange pi'.es of earth which the
hands of these primitive people have
raised. I have seen their contents set
out in museum, anil labelled. I have
had drawn for me a picture of the life at
the meal time, and at the sleeping hour.
And, yet, no one lives, who evttr saw- a
person, that saw another, that saw en
other, that saw another, that saw anqtIt-
er, that saw another, that saw another,
that saw another, that hum a Mound
Builder. But it is not all fancy and Idle
dream for that reason. In the utensils
which the mounds have given Jip to the
lespoiler, whose pick and shovel have
digged up the manufactures oi* ii Wi'usty
[ ; —t. we see thai life. 'I hat is; the 'tiling
i made, suggests what it was mude for.
: Iho flint arrow head, jEpmjd where once
| i . the savage Sioux or arroghnt
I *. lis of 'the Bow rthd 'String, up-
<h skilled fingers (Aiiced the ar-
I from which in obedience to uti-
,n. the stYbn* ami let it fly iip-
ssi> f desik. Ah. tnus do we
s, spea! a \arious language, dc-
e of what heaven shall be, as it
es a play for all tho e elements
••in eoul which deserve U per
• li^hout eternity's endless morn
1 e thus go with the 66rig of
.tckening our pace, as we op-
the river, at whose etlgc the
inbsetforear th's journey gives
give vib the form aud causliuess of the
citizenship of H.aven. Thus it is that
songs are given us in thv night of de-
spondency and courage impute 1 in th®
hour of seeming defeat. We become
Hi* workmanship, who 'is too wise to
make a mistake and t6o good to be un-
klnd,'
'Tim
SUPREME COURT
naSvi He grounds our hope and
touches us with Inspiration '.n the 'ear
nest of the spit it. \Vhat s an 'earnest.'
Well, to the old oriental, it ^as forfeit
money a part of tho purchase price
which insured a fulfillment of contract.
Thus we get our meaning. What is
it to be in earvifMtf Why. to mean what
we say, to li sincere. The grain met
chant buys thousands of bushels of
grain by sample. Soiun time the barlcv
in the sample is bettor than that which
burst the granary. It is white and with-
out color, and vet the buyer rays: 'Very
line. If it Is ail as good as this, I'll give
you so much for it.' What does lie
mean? Simply that bis price depends on
the sincerity of the teWer. Ke haa had
expeqiercss with human deceit, and
knows that money tempts too many to
dishonesty. So he conditions all on the
sample being a genuine sample. The
crop may be letter than the arrtt<*t.
and if so, he doesn't care. But it must
be as good, to bring a price based on
the sample offered.
"Well. Paul's idea is. that God gives
men a sample of heaven. True, they
look on no gold paved si roots, and soum
time* on little gold at all; true they
*ee no mansions, and possibly nuy have
to rent their hovels here; true, they
still fo'.low the hearse to the tomb 'and
the motnnera go about the streets.' in
lonliness sti'.l. But still men have a
sample of heaven given them. It is in
the depth of their own deep conscious-
ness. They cannot describe it; they
cannot speak its nr.me; they only know
t..ey have it. That is enough'. It is a
part of their very souls. Often and
again it speaks in memory, and then the
lyre of life plays a "sweet melody while
the heart, sings:
"There is a spot to me more dear,
Than nutive vale or mountain.
A spot for which affection's teair
Springs grateful to its fountain.
'Tis not where kindred friends abound,
Though that were almost heaven,
But where I first my savior found,
And ftU my sins forgiven."
Or once more, it tells of parting* at the
river, and the sweetening sense enrap-
tu.'.iog the soul takes possession of us in
, the revelation of that gruudest fnct of
soul consciousness, 'where our treasures
arc there vi. 1 our hearts be also,' and
the census of heaven reveals that we
have more friends in the celestial than
we have in the ten: est rial eity.- Or
again, it speaks in the joy of vi^t,^r,y, oy
<er sin, r.nd we know the beauty of the
inner life, so different from t'he'nktufe
which hampers us in the battle with sel-
fishness, and exultantly we cry, 'I can
do all thing" through Christ which
strengtheneth me.' Always satisfied With
the assurance divine, and feelmg- tire pull
toward the God life, which constantly
reveals to us the sufficiency of sntvattofr
fur every trial, and the inspiration comes
which writes for every life, lines more
beautiful than Milton ever penned, or
Shakespeare ever wrote."
CONVENED THIS MORNING-
LARGE DOCKET
ARE MANY APPLICANTS
! Apacl <
j i ow, ar
to
rath.
|K eat poe
but came fr
i enwraps us
I environment i
j has no relation v
but the rathi
j tion of '.he artL
or fancy,
ot the
. <•! '
•••r piece of art,
•.! rationalism.
> fioin the inspim
?-ultant from mem
and we outsc' v. -
in ti. ,ery day humdrum of our seclud-
ed lives, of which the world will mevej
care to learn, have the bense of this
truth which struggles for an utterance
in vain, in the language of man. In the
most immediate yesterday, things were
injected into our lives, whi< h no pro
ceases of reason account for. They came
that Is all. They bettered our hopes and
heightened our joys. They lifted us out
of tiospoiil. We cannot give the mental
formula which produced and revealed
them to our consciousness— we only
know that the impuUs has come and
that we ate braver because of it. Ora
tors mi fee! a thrill, which strikes all
the sti ;h of a hurp uf e! .juence, but
every ma: and woman has soused what
I mean. V" do not produce inspired
Isaiahs, or i 'ekiels, >i Jeremiahs, or
Daniels, but we me- iti-p! ed John
Smiths and Martha 'ire whose life
in the worU-a-day eolltude i • ;tlo<ifled by
the faith of an every is> It • ration of
hope and expectation.
'It is this inspiration, 11 p. lin t ion
cf which, we easily sco is th
tho gospel. Ii sings its battle soa^ in I ere
the utterance of the text: 'He tha u.
vfrvugl t us for ths self same th.
Ood. 'Man is a created being. A .
there is inspiration real, in the though
that we are crcated. For creation caj |
ries with it the fact of design. It doe i
i no\ satisfy our intuitions to assort that I ha
i note ugain: This utterance sug-
( the method of God a pw-p^rat ioit
lumanity for tho skies, ami unlocks
mystery of affliction. As the Crea-
. ork is not prepe ring heaven, but
ishioning man for that delectable
we may assume that every provi-
• either sends or permits, has its
p. 'to play in the processes of our soul
; ment. We are wrought work-
). The (rreek word suggests the
• wing to wcirk in. Ah. thai is it.
We r ot ca t into a mould, like the
briltl >riiament which crests the hinge
of your •< ve door, and which you have
so often broken. We are 'wrought ma
tatial.' The metal which shape. Itself
io a nu r.Id. U the same metal. The met-
al wi.idi ha i I een made into w rought
,r n i bt-sel, by the heat of furnace
fire?, i undergone a change in compo-
sition. It la not the same. It is better.
Where onee a blow would break It,
blow8 may n >w be rained upon it. and it
takes shape under every stroke. Sec the
smith at his forge. There lie has extract
ed from its fire tho wrought metal, ari l
lays it rudely on his anvil. I'nder the
blow of his hammer, see the spaiks
make red even the daylight. What is
ho doing? lie knows. Von do not.
But presently he taftes from the anvil
horn, the link of a chain ho has made,
or tho shoe for the horse, he has fash-
ioned, You didn't seo the process. But
when he struck his first hammer blow,
he saw the end, and cv.rv stroke that
fell was one step nearer t'o the finish
ed design, he over kept in min i
"And thue It Is with <• d in h
ions us. He makes no blunder in
all. What happens may seem ti 1
ard and blunderbns. But there H «' i
In evoiy heart ache ami eveiy lom
hotw. Grounded on tho gro.it fact
i 'atlvn Itself, involving as It Iocs, <
sign, vrc se« the infinito wisdom
fssh >ning us, but not until
has c.'"•god the very constituent-
cor latuii tn tlio now birth, and a n
rtst Jesus wc urc -haj
Trains Delayed Several Hours
on Accotni Thereot
(Special to the Times Journal.)
PKKHY, Jan. 5—Again at 4 o'clock
this morning the fire alarm sounded and
the department made a second hasty run
to the Santa Fe railway bridge near the
electric light plant which was found to
be burning freely at the north end. Hard
ami effect mil work soon put the fire un-
der control. It is presumed that the fire
originated from live coals dropped from
an engine as a train had gone over the
bridge about 20 miinutes before the fire
was discovered.
J he loss was a nominal one in a finan-
cial way but it delayed train; until
about 11 o'clock this morning, when the
sti;. lure was temporarily repaired and
traffic resumed. A now steel bridge at
tnat point would I.e in order and would
prevent a repetition of the accident.
Secretary Root Works lor Im-
provement
(From the Xew \ ( rk Main and Express.)
Secretary Root intends to keep on im-
proving the army up to the last moment
of his service as secretary of war. Bv
an order vigued on Tuesday he ha> re-
arranged the army commands in a logi-
cal manner and assigned the various
general offices to duties commensurate
with their rank.
# For military purposes the United
Slates has been divided hitherto into
eight departments, commanded indiffer-
ently by major generals ami brigadier
general-, th- latter, though of lower
rank, having within their commands
equal power with the former, and, like
them reporting directly to the chief of
-itafl". 'Ine new order changes this sys-
tem.
Instead of eight department* there tne
to be four divi-ions, commanded by mu-
jor generals, each division consisting of
two or inoro department* under briga-
dier general*. The Atlantic division will
be commanded by Major Genera! < orbin,
with headquarters in this city, and will
consist of the Department of tho Knst
(under Genei il C'orbin for the present)
and the Department of the Gulf, un l"r
Brigadier General Hains. The Northern
.da jor General Bates,
!ers at St. Louis will in
artments of tho I.rkes,
ml Grant eointr; tiding;
IliigadiA ( enerJ \\ int
Brigadier General Kobbe.
MacArthur will command
sion from headquarters in
tho present, he will
For Admission to Bar—Examin-
ation Today
(Special to the Time Journal.)
GITH1UK, Jan. fl. The Oklahoma
Supreme Court convened nt ten o'clock
ve-torday mo.ning iti the old court
house building for their January term.
The docket is larger than at any time
ill the past by eighteen, but the chief
justice and the associate justices are
expecting to complete the business in
the time limit. Chief Justice John 11.
Burford, of this city will preside, wfceu
tho court com ones end the six associ-
ate justices, with possibly one or two
exceptions will be present. Tho Associ-
ate" Justice4 are: Bayaid '1 Hainer,
llcujttiniu F. Burwell, Clinton F. Irwin,
F. H Gillette, James K. Beauchainp.
ond John L. Pan coast. The officers «>f
the court are, Horace Speed, I'nlted
States Attorney, John W. Scothorn,
Krauk Hall and L K. McKnight, assist
ant U. 8. attorneys; J. C. Robberti, nt-
torney" general; William I). Fossett,
United States marshal and Benjamin F.
Hegler, Clerk.
There are several noted cases to come
up at the January session, a number of
which have been appealed from Logan
county. Among these in tho appeal of
Bert We.ty, convicted in the lower
cousts with the murder of Albert Baden,
near Bed Rock several years ago in
conjunction with the well known ties
perado. Hen Ct evens. Tho appeal of the
Territory of Oklahoma, ex rel. F. II. Mc
Guire, county attorney vs. the board of
trustees of the Logan county high achoo\
is also docketed for this term of court.
If the levy and county high school law
is legal a* many good attorneys be-
lieve that it is, the people of the county
are unxioun that the supreme couit
shall hand down a decision, ho that they
can resume work or erection of the
huildiug, so that it be occupied before
.thi' close of the school next year.
Among the first business to be taken
up by the supreme court will be the
passing upon the application for ad-
mission to the bar of Oklahoma. There
are twenty-one wdio ctnue under cxemj>-
tlon ttausc ami who will be recommend
ed for admission by the examining
board without examination. Twenty six
took the examination yesterday and el-
even who have made application failed
to appear to take the examination,
while several more were turned down bc
eau e of their failure to establish prop-
er moral qualifications.
The examining l>oard appointed by the
supreme court is compoaed of John W.
Scothorn, Guthrie; M. J. Kane, of King
fisher; Ii E. Grinstcad, of Anadarko;
Judge Frank lisle, of Guthrie; «). C.
Simmons, I'oud Creek; T. J. Woinack,
Alva; C. B. Ames. Oklahoma City; II. B.
Martin, Perry; Frank Wells, Oklahoma
City, secretary.
Those wht) were passed by tho board
on the exemption are Richard Frank
George, Guthrie; ('. H. Lockey, Oklaho-
ma City; Richard R. Mitchell, Guthrie;
Delbert M. Tibbetts, Guthrie; J. G. Mc
Kelby, Pond Creek ; 1). J. Johnson, Ok
lahoma City; >a*n L. Harrah, Caison
City; Charles Porter Johsoti, Oklahoma
City; Hiram P. White, flobart; Tho«,
Reed Cliff, ilnid; A. MiAc Hamm.tt,
Oklahoma City; Lester C. Xerris, Pond
Creek; E. K. McAdams, Oklahoma City;
Oliver C\ Black, Oklahoma C'lty; W. O.
Mitchell, Oklahoma City; James Loutam
Ponctt City; Clarence Oliver Leeks,
(r raves; James N. lJarnill, Lawton;
Fleetwood Bell, Sayre; Charles G. Gary,
Taloga; C. I* Ingersoll. Ponca < ity.
Those who qualified s* to character
and took the examination yesterday and
who will complete it to-day are:
R. K. HiilfUrer, Tecumseh: W. F.
ftluiid, Oklahoma City . (lyde Matthew,
KI Reno; Joel M. Saiidin, Bellmont; R.
L. (arruthers, Ralston; Kugene R.
Fords, Arapahoe: J. .1. Davis. ( handler;
11 L. Kennedy, lawton; P. J. Cary.
( has. E. Wells, Shawnee: (J. S. Rehcrt,
Knid; A. A. Hindman, Lawton; Sidney
R. Roff, (ietri ; C. O. M. ipen er, Okla
lioma City: A'bert Wellborn, Beaver.
•J. F. laid wig. Oregg; Koacoe ' . Arring
ton, Tecumseh, Junies R. Tolbert, Ho
hart; C. P. Jl"lt, Shawnee; 1. <• Scot
ten, Kryd; W. T. Williams. Shawnee; A
H. Thomas, Shawnee; W. Booth Merrill.
F.Ik Citv; Loyal J. Martin, Newkirk: B
James Patterson, Guthrie, W. T. John
son, Chandler.
Tlie following who were recommended
for extuilinstioii failed to appear.
1). Fleetwood, Sayre; L. A. Dc\'oe,
Shawnee; Sidney Sapp, Itahton: ti. S.
< ilbert. F.nid; W. S. Cade, Shawnee; lv
W. McIntosh, Harrison; J. If. Crant,
Oklahoma City, Henry Glitach, Anadai
ko: P. \ < n Meyes, Shawnee F. M
White, Oklahoma City; Samuel Smith,
Stillw ater.
division, und
with headquni
elude the De;
Brigadier Gen
of the Missoui
and of Dakot 1
Major ' .enei.
the Pacific cb
San Frnnei*
command ;il- 1
fornia, while
will comman i
Ctdtimbia. '1
w ill have it «
V in and thrt
igrdie
Depiutinent > f Call-
Depart i
THEORIES THAT
MAKE CROOKS
Queer Class of Criminals De-
scribed by Detective
V Ik
><«
11.1
;es, but whir a now th.
aimauih
ond looks to the loosening «
Mid th > improvement uf slim
a^Uout ssrvice.
ipliuo
he whi e a Uliifoiin,
people smelt out a ,
coinage that wuj b .
in Pennsylvania. J
caai e the phony
teritary.
' When the governr
the cu e. But they
I that on Monday la i
I ing plant was in op«
i ing tluat other at'a<
j enitentlary were in
| all getting their bit.
"liMHS is notliOI." h
Sun.)
^aid u Now York
' '• a six striper if
tho secret service
uliar bit of silver
< carried on dowu
was being rnanu-
tlic Easto n peni-
lit sleuths
felh
hen tho prison coin
ihoots v. ith the in
1 now they're say*
lies of the Eastern
!i coining deal and
: i rising about this
to a man who known how many n o
uially square puoplc become criminal - by
suggestion. Store polieenien go wronif
nowaday* and Jo4n In with th working
mobs than most peojjls have any Ufti i^f,
This is not so irtuch the oase in New i
York aa it is In tne Mg western cities
in Chicago, particularly.
"Close and inoessant contact with tne
crooks :nakea them crooked themselves
More than that, there':, scarcely a l i$
pen in the I nlte I ilntes today that i^
not holdin.; under lock and key sonto fel
low wdio l>efore turning crook had dono
service ;i i a pen keeper.
These people beet me crooked by u$j-
ge*Hion due to their necessary • ut:i« t
with the under gangs, just as a certain
well undi . ktood percentage of attend
ants in iu atie asylums l ecome more or
Icsm looney themselves through t >iisfant
handling of patients in th efooli*h fac
torie> in wbiih the; are employed.
"But then s another class of per.mn •
w ho become ( litninah by ki,e«.tion, and
there ave examples of them fioni every
w alk <«f life. Th. % are | eople who ]>er
lit it them-elves to develop on abnormal
Interest i;i the ways of prole.Mn-r.il
c.'. ninals.
"I wouldn't call it a • lfe th:M,r for
any mau tt attempt 1< figure out in his
mind what he himself would have done
to duck arrest hud he oeen iu the hoots
of a certain enpturcd etiiuinal, ! nt that's
the soil of thing that thousnn:!- of ru n
who think the\ u e aonest n; doit : all
the time. Win": then- - a bi,r nun hunt
tm thf follow il with acuio ir■ I« r• *-.t.
put I hem tr* iu the piiu e of t hunt
e I man and dt i c out stlieincs of escapes
fur him.
"A certain percentage of «••.(<•]) etilcu
lutora are bornd to e\peiiei. e the
hankering, sooner or later, t" put their
schemes for evading the olTitiis into
piacticil operaiion, if only for the iiube
tile purpose of finding out how their
plnnn will work.
"Working in New ^"ork n w, on a
salary of a few tlollara a week, there is
a brokenmiddle aged man who used to
be the treasurer of a bonding anil it-
delimitv company, al a salary of $10,000
a year. This man developed a queer l og
for ment t '.y tracing the movements of
fugitive embcrzieiH.
"He tried to pump me for everything
I knew about audi eases. He liked to
talk about the fleeing ones. He laid
out mental routes for them. He know
the extradition laws by henrt, and had
at his lingers' ends eveiy county in the
world to which a chased man could run
without fear of extradition.
"I gave this mau a talking to about
tfiis tniainsfts.
" 'You'd better cut it out.' 1 told him,
'or It'll begin to fcrter in the back of
your head nnd get you going. I've
known su, h things to hap|>eu, end no
man is aa much as one eighth as strong
ad he thinkm he ia. If I didn't know you
pretty v.ell, I'd have niy au^jxicions of
^ou as it is.'
"Be only laughed and told me that he
was interested in the subject jimt as oth-
er fellows were interested in old fiddles,
or rare postage stamps, or the trim of
their whiskers.
" 'Anyhow,' he added laughingly, 'if I
did jump and you weie sent after me,
you'd never he tiubjected to the etnbai-
rassment of taking me, because you'd
never get me. If I couldn't bet l all of
these pin headed embezzlers in making a
safe get-away, so that none of you
would ever nail me, I'd want to have my
head laigged.'
"Not more than a year after that he
made bin hop, and got him us easy ae
hot footing an Athenian banaim pe/ldler
on Park How. I went straight to the
little villa he had taken outside of
Genoa, in Italy.
"He was the most stupefied man when
I nailed him, that you ever saw, for he'd
made hia jump at the beginning ot nls
two weekb' vacation, and had laid all of
hia plana with what ho thought was
masterly adroitness, according to It is
( hart, with a fortnight's margin of tim ■
to accomplish the scheme in . He got
eight years, in consideration of return
ing most of the swag.
1 That man put himself in the way of
being a criminal by suggestion. Hi«
utudies of the movements of fleeing ab-
sconder* developed an irresponsibility
in him and an ache to put ,.0 ■ e test the
gatewliy plans that he spent his even
ings in doping out whilo still en honest
man.
"Twenty years or so ago there was a
young whelp of leisure in this town who
thought it funny to collect nn I exhibit
burglars' tools in his lmehclor apart
mcnts. lie was his rich mother's onl\
sunshine, and he had the meant* to
gratify this bug, which, as I say, he
regurued ap something humorous.
"He got tho burglars' kith from many
•ouroes, not the least fruitful of which
were the various burglars' headquarters
:round New York, lie made it his hn
morons business to become acquainted
with all of the guns, dips, nitro and pe
ter men. porch-climbcri, and other manu-
al crooks around New York, and as he
was a first rate producer, they didn t
mind knowing i..m and putting him wise
to their methods. He tailed all this a
"The headquarters men warned him
time and again ngninst mixing with tho
< rooks, only to be tut tutted and tubbed
for their pains.
" 'I don't care for horse racing, and I
don't intend to drink myself to death.'
he'd reply. '.Mixing with the guns and
buying up their klt« ia my way of di
verting myself. They amuse me Don't
interfere with me. I'm all right.'
"Tho cub's mother tiled, and when It
ame to settling up her affairs her es-
'ate was found to l e so involved that he
-.rot nothing. A short time after h«
found that ho was broke he tvss invited
to a housewarmlng at a rich friend's
h< tne up in Westchester County. On the
evening following his arrival up there his
host caught him rod banded in the act of
uelpiug iu tho act of helping himscuf to
bis hostess' jewels.
"Ho had remuincd in his room during
the dinner hour on the plea of heidache,
and, when the reht of tho household wore
at dinner, ho had jiromed his wny into
his hostess' apartment to annex her
jewds. The host's wife had sent her
husband from tho dinr t table to her
room for a handkerchief <>r something
and he had caught his collecting friend
• {uits by accident.
"Ths cub tad entered a window and
inado trn' ks outside so as to maks It
appear that an outside burglar had dona
thA job, but his being caught with the
goods, of course, ruined this neat little
'hat affair forever banished him from
tho society of his own kind.
"Inside a quarter of a year he was a
professional injxglar, and u mighty or-
oliMry and bungling one at that. lie
■ lid a bit in King bing anu a lour speckcr
in Massachusetts prison befuro he
went and diiappeared.
"There is no calculating how many of
the women shoplifter* whoso clumsy
work causes them to be held up in Now
York every day, especially around ths
pi'o* etit *c Mon, are led to try their
■ ■ nds at "that aort of tliiac through
brarit * and icadit g about tne profes-
sional lifter*.
Not veiy long ago a girl was caught
lifting s pair of inexpensive gloves in a
Store The girl had an aiount at that j
fll-ie lot ,ili. «i.o.uot sio- «•!.<■«* ; t -pe.'.
up to thonsands. She wasn't arresteti§9
of course but she lfi to the rear
"Hi - . r.<I 'hid*! by the bead of the &ua
n u gsutle sort of way.
'• 'Perhaps you saould put ymr« elf I
iu the hands <>f a spc< i. li^t for treat-I
ment," tic said i" the ^i11, who was J
weeping softly. 'With you, beyond
doubt, it is kleptonvinia il must Ive.'
replied I he gii I, \. ith I
i■ utmost cand i 'It not !■ nep( )<•
M . i I . '.n suehl I
I '• I I -old I
do it without being cm ugh that's all.
\ ti
shoplifters the\ aenied so fascinating—I
. . I ' - ■ e i -1 I 111" ■ nt
to exhibit t..o gloves to llifin as j tro-
' 1 ' ■ ' imi by I
I
• I • ' > and [
firm 1 :: pi titt y I
well which bis brand i buttered on,i
it |
using the girl's name.
"But f ' I
11
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y I
. . ' e I lie;, ! I \ ,! ,i;; i. ,ind
' 1 ' ' j ' • 1 I
them mili' the inevitable day it di^-ov
cry arrives.
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with the sculptor's tlay."
1 jj.ii
Muskogee Man a Hero at Chi-|
caso Theatre Fire
(Muskogee Phoenix).
' I
j
pens in th rnited States w it hout somel
citizen of cosmopolitan Muskogee being!
■ oi t lie - • nr. When the Iroquois thoatreP
disaster occurred ut Chicago, in v biohl
probably aix hundred perioua lout theirl
lives, u prominent citizen of this placej
s present .MrJ
i ampbell, with ,i [ nrty of friends as thoT
rfio■.-(;« of Mr. haidie l ov, who was billed)
for tin afternoon performance, arrived
In I e to the matinee and had juat taken!
theii b" u when the flro alarm was
given Thej made up a Ihjx party andl
ri os< to the stage and 'be cuit&inl
I
. I en Mi 1 • J began to i eassure th«
I
lei to av< Id a panic, several actors ill
I
turs i
Le their way to an ex
and, olimbing down a fire ssoape, reach*
.i plaee of safety before the stamped
w hii h i ■ st so many lives. Myl
i .mpbell and bis friends were activ# in
k of rse uing terrified patj
rous «.f the house and succeeded b;
fforts In preventing a great los
.,I liir nt the exit from which they had
- , ,ipe.| I keeping ths throng movind
I
in ths drop t<< 'he street below. MrP
i .1 uipbell i- a very muscular man and
L
it most In ti ' grim battle with death!
He retui ne i «stsrday I f
M'ss warmly congratulated by his inanj
u
rival.
SERIOUS CHARGI
Young People Go Wrong anj
are Fined
(Special to the Times Journal.)
OUTttRlE, Jan. 0. -Officers dacks
I
1
1
I
When arraigned in police court ynw
da j morning all foui plead guilt? t" 11 |
I
purpi ses. As at lsaet ods of the girlj
was under age, criminal warrants xr~
be sworn out for tho young men.
(Special to the Times*Journal.)
El. RENO, dan. 5 The game of foe
ball played yesterday afternoon bet wee
the High School boy a of this < ity an
the Cheyenne Indians resulted in a SUM
of 4(1 to f> for the High Hchoo! bovs.
Tho Indians played ; go d stilT gam
hut wero not in the elao* with the lliy
School team.
BURGLARS WORI
|
between 6:30 and 0:30 o'clock the Orsn
leader Deptutment eiors, owned
Messrs. Ili:sch and Ksufftnan. was b
ken into and bolts "f Hue silk valt
at about $700, together with $1.">
silver and about $25 worth of suit ca
and telescopes were stolen.
It is supposed that the store was
tared from a window In tne rear of
east room. The silk which was tak^
lay on shelves in the w«st room a
was of fine imported and domestic qu
ity, mostly black iu color, 27
I
her of telescopes wero alio taken
which the burglars probably pick
their st 'len goods. The af* w-as :i
visited and $15 in silver, all that t
safe contained was stolen.
Tho burglars made their exit throu
a back dc < r lea vug no trace or «l.ie
thoir identity or of the numle: of p
sons who commiitt^d tho theft.
Night Watchman Dearingcr notk
the rear door atohdlng open at ab«
Ii ' TO I
at nine to find Mr. I [inch, the p
!i Inig hi:u i
lit tin ti i *v,t, upent in l.-eaimg hil
and it wot after tell before Mr. ttln
snd the night watclnuau rsturned
the stora.
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