The Sapulpa Light. (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 365, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 30, 1908 Page: 1 of 4
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ASSO( IATED PRESs
■*ol. I
Sapulpa Xtgbt.
ULY EDITION'
I
HfiLF WEEPS
FOR OTHER
"HOI K ( ITIES WIPED OUT—NOT
A SOIL TO TELE THE
TALE
await death in tomb
American Consul, Cheney, and Bishop
Sessnnis of List of Missing—He-
ports Grow Horse
SAPULPA. OKLAHOMA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, .908
Rome, Dec. 30.—Half population of
< alabria and the Eastern part of Si-
cily are dead and the other half are
weeping. It seems impossible to ex-
agerate the horrors of Monday's earth-
quake. The whole of Italy is abso-
lutely stunned and at the scene of the
disaster the bulk of the people liter-
ally demented with the suddenness
and extent of the blow.
King Victor Ethanuel and the queen
arrived at Messira today. The scene
of the disaster and horror was too
much for the queen who almost
swooned.
Crowds of terror stricken persons
swarmed about the royal party throw-
ing themselves in the mud and scream
ing for pity and aid. At Massira the
cathedral municipality's buildings,
barracks, and all prisons were all de-
stroyed and of tw« hundred and
eighty railway employes in the sta-
tion at .Messii^i only tight are known
to have survived, while at Reggio the
silence of death still reigns.
The volcano of Strombeli is active
and the stas around the island are
very agitated and dangtrous to navi-
gation. From the latest estimates to-
, day it is feared the total liumber of
victims in Sicily and Calabria will
reach more than 100,000 with property
damage of several hundred millions.
VOTERS OPPORTUNITY
< banco in Say Which School His Boy
May Have Before Him,
Jan. 12,
A boy develops either into a man or
criminal between the ages of 15 and
->■ if his mind is trained, he becomes
a man, but if he is left to train him-
sell', he usually follows the law of
least resistance, which leads him to
the police court, and from that on it
becomes the old, old story.
The decrease in crime through edu-
cation in Creek county will more than
pay the cost of that education. Creek
county has no school for that boy; but
by ballot on January 12 the voter will
have the opportunity to establish one
that will be a credit, and place the
county in the foremost rank in Ok-
lahoma.
The question is: To which can you
look with the most pride; a well filled
high school, or the more expensive,
over crowded jail?
It becomes your duty to answer this
question.
How are you going to answer it?
WAGON OMi (IF THE BEST*
tire Apparatus Man Passes Judgment
on City's New Wagon—Inter-
ested Visitors
VOTE ALMOST
THREE TO ONE
No. 365
FAMED GRAFTEH SENTENCED
Abraham Reuf of California, Gets
Fourteen Years—Seeks New
Tria I
Manager Doolittle of the LaFrance
I lire apparatus house, and Robert
Crace, a'salesman for the house, were
in the city yesterday and spe*nt several
i hours very profitably looking over
Oklahoma's best town.
! Manager Doolittle, in speaking of
only one ward against
southwest, and that we are fortunate I '
PROPERTY OWNERS s\v THEY
YV INT W ITER, \ \|> PLENTY'
OF IT
in having secured it.
Chief Stagg is interested in the ac-
| count of the runaway of the fireteam
at Perry yesterday in which, by col-
j islion with a telephone pole, the
wagon which Chief Stagg rode for ten
J years was broken in two.
j Chief Mart Kessler of Oklahoma
<'ity, while driving to a fire collided
with an auto and had his arm broken
in two places, and has since been in
the hospital. His assistant with him
was also badly bruised.
Problem >on Up to the < ouncil for
Solution, and For Action-
Help Needed
VALUABLE AIM! 'NTT TO SCHOOLS
Comprehensive Map by .1. Robert Burn
ham A Co., to HanU' in Every
School House
MAINS' SERVANTS TESTIFY
Exhibit the Skeletons in the Family
Closet and Show What Really
IMd Exist
BAGNAKA COMPLETELY
WIPED OUT BY QUAKE
Catandada, Calabria, Dec. .30.—A
report received here today says the
town of Baguara on the coast north
of Reggio is cqmpletely wiped out,
Jiie finishing the work of destruction.
The report says: "All inhabitants of
Baguara are dead. The town contain-
ed ten thousand jieopie. Lime will be
scattered over the heap of ruins which
alone marks the site of a once popu-
lous town.
AWAITING DEATH
IN LIVING TOMBS
Catarla, Dec. 30.—One of Messira's
suiviv'oia says that only a small pro-
portion of tue population escaped.
Thousands of persons arc still buried
alive in the ruins where they aie suff-
ering Blow deatn b) torture, impris-
oned and pinioned human beings un-
able to extricate themselves, being
buried alive. Others are dying of their
iiijuiies while many aie starving.
VMERICAN BISHOP
THOUGHT TO HE LOST
New Orleans, Dee. 30.—The Right :
Rev. David Sessums, protestant Epis-
copal bishop of Louisiana, is believed
10 nave been at .Messira at the time
'Of the earthquake. There has been 110
news from him.
The engineering firm of J. Robert
Burnham & Co., of this city and of
j 1 ulsa, are preparing a very compre-
| hensive map 011 orders of the county
commissioners, which are to go into
every school house in Creek county.
The map is an education itself in re-
gard to Creek county and contains in-
formation that many of the adults do
not know, not to mention the child at
school and it is needless to say that
the maps will be an appreciated ad-
| junct to the paraphernalia of the
I school rooms of the county.
! The maps are to show the location,
j of course, of all school houses all
| i'oads in each district; municipal town
ship lines, all voting places in each
ownship of all the county; all rall-
I ways, towns and cities, ferries over
1 lie streams, fords; the assessed valu-
ation of each township; the wealth
>er capita, and value of agricultural
md oil products.
Beside the foregoing important ln-
; formation the map contains a map of
1 city of Sapulpa, showing all lot
I owners, the streets, alleys, and all
| needed information.
The map is 011 cloth, and will stand
1 he test of time. That it is drawn by
the Burnhams is a guarantee of its
accuracy.
REPRESENTATIVE CO FORWARD
| Flushing, Dec. 30.—In the triaV of
Thornton Hains today Minnie Rohne
and Emma Lavelle, former servants
j of Hains' household, are the principal
( witnesses.
j -Miss Rohne testified that she over-
heard two days following Captain
Hains' return from the West, the con-
j fession of Mrs. Hains to her husband
in which the wife told of her trip to
New York to see a physician. Miss
; Lavelle related having told Captain
j Haines of his wife's frequent absen-
' ees and of a quarrel between Mrs.
Hains and Annis when the former re-
proached the latter for breaking an
j negageinent with her because of an j
appointment with his wife.
The vote on the water proposition
as cast yesterday was almost three
to one in favor of the proposition, and
the city will now be bonded for $65,-
000 for the purpose of providing an
adequate supply of pure water for
domestic consumption. The provis-
1 ion is one of the most important of the
I demands 011 a municipality and the
; prcjiert.v owners of the city have
demonstrated their faith in Sapulpa
| by voting the needed amount.
! As to the means to be employed
j now to carry out the wishes of the
voters, that is a matter up to the
j wisdom of the council, and it is be-
j lieved that the importance of the trust
I imposed upon them is fully appre-
I ciated by the members. Good water
J is demanded, as well as plenty of it.
The means of giving that at the least
excuse is the problem which the
council will now have to solve. They
shojild have the aid and co-operation
of every good citizen in the task be-
fore them.
The vote as recorded in the several
wards is:
Penitentiary Investigation lleaim
Topeka, Dec. 30.—The investigation
of the conditions at the Kansas state
penitentiary at I.ansing by the joint
committee from Oklahoma and Kan-
sas, will begin tomorrow afternoon.
Governor Hoe'h gave the Kansas mem-
bers of the committee final instruc-
tions at a meeting in his office this
afte moon.
The investigation is the outgrowth
of the charges made by Kate Ber-
nard. visitation officer for Oklahoma.
It will be made along three lines:
( rueI punishment, impure and im-
proper food and unsanitary condi-
tions.
Ward
First .
Second
Tii if d .
Fourth
Fjfth . ,
For
Totals
Majority for, 82.
HOPEFUL VIEW TAKEN
I !iuirniii:i Norris Home From Washing
ton. Predicts Successful
Session
Getting Expressions From People He-
fore He Does so in Order to
Serve Them
Representative Heim of Creek coun-
ty goes Saturday to Guthrie to be 011
.and at the opening of the second
srssion of the legislature of the state
which is to convene the following
Monday.
Before going Representative Helm,
as should a true representative of the
people, has been feeling the pulse of
ais constituency for the purpose of as-
certaining their desires as to legisla-
tion to b^~favored this winter.
Si RPRISED HIS FRIENDS
BELIEVED ANOTHER
ISLAND DESTROYED
Rome, Dec. 30.—Cable communica-
tion with the Aeolian islands north of
Sicily is interrupted, it is feared that
the island also have been devastated.
( ON8EL CHENEY
AND WIFE AMONG DEAD
Washington, Dec. 30.—A dispatch
today from the consul at Malta con-
firms the reported death of Consul
Cheney and Ills wife at Messira. The
bodies have not been recovered.
WILL GIVE GUN TOURNAMENT
< aptain T. E. Saxton, of Hamilton,
Texas, accompanied by Mrs. Saxton,
both of them experts with the rifle,
are In the city for the purpose of giv-
ing a tourneyment for the edification
of lovers of the gun. The tournament
will take place somewhere outside the
city and the date will be announced.
Captain Saxon's advertisements an-
nounce him as instructor in the new
theory of shooting, and as a promoter
among the shooting element. He or-
ganizes clubs; presents medals and
trophies, and makes a specialty of ex-
hibition shooting.
Dr. Rentfro Steals Away to St. Louis
and Takes a Helpmeet
Dr. James Linton Rentfro, one of the
well known young practicing physi-
cian of Sapulpa, surprised his friends
by stealing away to St. Louis, where
011 the 24th he was united in marriage
to Miss Rosa Marie Shreve, an esti-
mable young lady of that city. They
are to be at home in Sapulpa after
February 15, and the welcome of the
circle of acquaintances of the popular
doctor will be extended his bride.
The removal sale at Hunt's jewelry
store, opposite the St. James will con-
tinue for the next 10 days. Rather
than pack the goods and risk loss and
breakage we will sell at a sacrifice.
This is your chance to prepare for
weddings and birthdays throughout
the year. We give a discount of 20
per cent on cut glass. 15 per cent on
watches, 20 per cent on jewelry, etc.
If you wanted something for Xmas
which you didn't get, you can afford
to buy it for yourself now. See us for
bargains.
Conscience Goaded Him to it
Tulsa, Dec. 30.—After being a fugi-
tive from justice for months X. J. Don-
nell went into the office of the chief of
police today and surrendered himself
for the murder of James Eennett at
j Madill, Ok., which he claims was com-
mitted in self-defense. Donnell said
the killing of Bennett has so preyed
on his mind that remorse is driving
lilm insane. Several times before this
; he claims he had started to give him-
self up. The sheriff of Marshall coun-
j ty took him back to .Madill tonight.
N'"lit Riders Outrage 1'urmer
Oklahoma City, Dec. 30. Night
| riders have again appeared in Potta-
watomie county. W. A. Buck, recently
removing from Iowa, has received no-
tices on different occasions to quit
selling cotton below 10 cents. He ig-
nored them. Saturday his barn, with
entire contents, including a large sup-
ply of feed of all kinds, was burned
The fire was discovered only in time
to save a number of head of horses
from being burned to death.
MINE FACILITIES INCREASING
Dead Now Number Fifty—Twelve
Bodies Recovered Today
Ennis, W. Va., Dec. 30.—The fatui-
ties in the Dick branch mine as a re-
sult of the explosion yesterday will
probably reach fifty. This morning
twelve bodies have been taken out.
Ennis, West Va., Dec. 30.—It is be-
lieved that thirty-eight men are in the
mine wiih little chance for their re-
covery alive.
lo Elect Y. M. C. A. Officers
January 1, at 4, p. m., the directors
of the Y. M. C. A. are to meet for the
purpose of selecting new officers for
the coming year.
Qklahonia City. Dec. 30.—"Oklaho-
ma delegates in congress are in strict
.accord with the republican organiza-
tion and the administration feels kind-
1> toward us. was the statement of
j Joe .Norris, chairman of the republican
1 state committee in Oklahoma, who ar-
rived at the Threadgill this afternoon
. iroUl Guthrie. Chairman Norris has
nst returned from Washington where
he held a conference with President
Roosevelt, and made a social visit
upon President-elect William H. Taft.
ublic patronage is always a mat-
ter of great delicacy. ' continued the
j chairman, "but suffice to say the
straightline republicans of the south-
west will be given preference. 1 am
wholly satisfied with the results of
m> trip, and while I have nothing now
that would be of public interest, I will
say that 1 am glad we we it to W asli-
[ ington.
"The financial situation in the east
has cleared preceptibly, ,-id cotifi-
I dence in the continuation of the
Roosevelt policies under the ■ ider-
ship of itr. Taft has give! commer-
cialism an impetus that is pleasing to
the public. There is a vast rence
between the feeling now .nd a . car
ago, when the public wat effecting
considerable disaster throughout the
country.
I anticipate some sane legislation
and look for congress to be in he .lthy
accord with the president. Th. re is
little doubt that favorable tari 1 re-
vision will be accomplisi ed along
public safety lines.
Chairman Norris was enthm u.stic
about the showing of Oklahot ui re-
publicans In Washington, a id « a cer
tain that satisfactory ap<>pin?ti *!nts
will be made In this state. S"i n ary
H, B. House accompanied iin to
Washington.
San Francisco, Dec. 30—Abraham
Ruef. former political boss of San
Francisco, was today sentenced to 14
years in the state penitentiary at San
Quentin.
1 he sentence was pronounced by
Judge V, 111. P. Lawler, who presided
over Ruef's trial 011 the charge of
bribing a member of Schmidt's board
of supervisors in the award of an
overhead trolley franchise to the Unit-
ed Railroads. The trial, which ended
with the conviction of Ruef was one
of the most celebrated in the history
of the city.
Ruef for years directed the political
destinies of San Francisco, as advisor
of the administration of Eugent E.
Schmitz, former mayor of the city.
Judgment was pronounced at the
dose of a day devoted to a legal battle
"herein the defense sought to intro-
duce many reasons for a new trial
When Judge Rankin had denied this
and other motions involving delay, the
defendant arose at the coprt's com-
mand and stood unmoved through the
recital of the judgment. There was 110
demonstration 011 the part of the spec-
tators during the prcoeedlngs in the
court room, nor later when Ruef, hav-
ing entered the prison van in the cus-
tody of a deputy sheriff, started in the
dusk 011 his long ride to the county
jail.
Before adjournment of court, notice
of an appeal had been filed 011 hehalf
of the defendant and the court had
signed a writ of probable cause, which
will act as a stay of execution in the
case.
In the trial that was prolonged
through a period of nearly four
months, Ruef was convicted of bribing
John J. Furry, former supervisor, to
favor the award of an overhead trolley
franchise to the United Railroads.
This was one of the indictments re-
turned against him by the Oliver
Brand jury, which heard the confes-
sions of sixteen supervisors who ad-
mitted the acceptance of bribes in
several matters Involving public ser-
vice corporations.
One of the many incidents that tend
io make the trial of Ruef remarkable
was the shooting of Assistant District
\ttorney Francis J. Heney by Morris
Haas, an ex-convict whose past record
was exposed by the prosecution after
Haas had been accepted as a member
f the jury in Ruef's second trial,
liaas subsequently committed suicide
in the county jail.
DR. BULCIN
TO RETURN
( IIRISIIAV MEN'S CLUB FOR-
MALLY REQUESTS Ills RE-
TURN IN SEPTEMBER
promised to 00 so if asked
Synopsis of tddresg by Rev. Smith and
Others—.Memiter-hip Increas-
ed— Greater Work
DIDN'T I.IKE "MONEY GETTER"
l ost Humorous Letter of President
Harper of Chicago University
Proves It
Count Bonl's Petition De c>ti
Paris, Dec. 30.—The pet! of
I'ount Boni DeCastelane that t'ti us-
tody of his three children l>e glv* . to
him waB denied today. The irt
ruled that the children remain he
custody of their mather, Priuciii De-
-Sagen, formerly Miss Anna Got.
Chicago. Dec. 80.—The sensitiveness
lot the late William R Harper, presi-
dent of the University of ChUaao. as
| to his re putation of being a "money
getter" for the university, is illustrat-
|' d In a letter which will be published
in the < hicago Tribune tomorrow.
This letter was written some time
before Mr. Harpers deatli to James
Keeley. managing editor of the Tri-
j bune, and has been preserved in Mb.
|Keeleyg private correspondence, it
is now published as supplementary to
It!le statement of John I). Rockefeller
that Mr. Harper never discussed with
him matters of finance connected with
the university.
"When I left my work in New Ha- I
ven to come to Chicago." runs the let-
ter. i was laying greatest emphasis
on the scholarly side. Up to that time
I had given myself largely to scholar- j
| ly work. On coming to Chicago I had !
to turn aside for the next ten or
twelve years to secure money for the
university, and in doing this I was
compelled to throw myself into that
side of the work.
"The consequence is that Chicago
and the Northwest think of me as a
money getter, and that Is the reputa-
tion I have everywhere, a reputation
which is hardly fair in view of my
antipathy for this kind of work, and
my love for the other.
"The thing that troubles me is that
I seem to stand in the West for some-
thing that I do not really represent,
and the thing which I really repre-
sent is not appreciated, or understood,
or even known by the great majority
of the people who are familiar with
the working of the university."
$2.00 Silver Tea Spoons at Hunt'g
now $1 60.
By an unanimous vote the Chris-
tian Men's Club of the city extended
last evening an invitation to Dr. Bul-
gln to return to Sapulpa for the month
of September next, with his tabernacle
and conduct meetings.
It is very.fitting that this invitation
go up from the men of this club for
it was due to their efforts that the doc-
tor was secured for here in the first
Instance and really the prime object of
the organization of the club, at the
time it was organized, was for the
purpose of arranging for some such a
meeting as was finally held by Dr.
llulgin. The club determined very
speedily at its first meeting following
the Bulgin meetings that its work was
not finished, and the action last even-
ing bears out the assumption. Dr.
Bulgin, while here, promised to return
if requested.
Rev. Smith on Christian Brotherhood
The club was delighted last night to
listen to an address of a few minutes
from Rev. Arthur F. Smith of Tulsa,
who spoke briefly because of having to
take the train for his home. He wa
glad that the two cities could join In
the discussion of Christian subjects.
Rev Smith saw great possibilities in
the handing of Christian men of differ-
ent denominations together as has
been done in Sapulpa, and the act has
j been sufficient to commend the mem-
bers to the outside cities. The effect
will be to promote Christian confi-
dence. and advancement all along the
line. It will be the crystalization of
effort.
< hristlan Brotherhood has the ad-
vantage of placing'power along side of
power. The lonely Inhabitant of an
Island, with no association, becomes
very like the animals which may be
about him; and he can do no great
thing. But. transplanted and by unit-
ing his efforts with those of others he
is able to combine his energies int<> jf-
system of power. The result of the
j union of effort Is redoubled effort.
Membership of Club Noticeable
Rev Smith said that the membership
i of the Christian Men's Club of Sapulpa
had been such as to attract attention
to the club. When men of thrift, en-
terprise and of large aims united in
an organization of this kind it meant
much for It. it also meant that they
Here united in an object more worthy
than that of city building, or other of
the forms of earthly effort.
Religion Is For Virile Men
One thing which is being impressed
in the modern time is the fact that re-
ligion is not a thing for women and
children, and for weaklings among
men, or comfort 011 the deathbed. "It
is time to do away with this thought,"
said the speaker. "Christ was a man
among men. He mingled with strong
men; men of hope, desires, passions,
and the attributes of men. The bible
was written by men, and men of great
strength."
However, let not the corrollary be
| drawn, said the speaker, "that the
women have not great power, or that
they have not done a great work with-
in the church. One has said that the
great work of the church today is be-
ing done by the women.
He that as it may, we ought to not
draw any sex line In the great spirit-
ual work of the church. The point is:
Our religion Is not effeminate. It
. involves most heroic manliness. When
men combine they can accomplish
much We are acquainted with com-
; hinatlons in our time and need not be
told of their power in bringing about
the things desired."
Natural Desires Bring Men Together
This movement which the club rep-
resents is one of a fellowship of feel-
ings, desires. You are organized be-
cause you wish to become a part of a
world-wide movement. It Is au organl
zation which counteracts the effect of
none other for good In the world, but
does aid every other organization for
good extant. It is a great Inspiration
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