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CIRCULATION
YESTERDAY
VOLUME L
Evening Free Press
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKL AHOMA, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1911—TEN PAGE8.
NUMBER 205
Want Ads in two
papers — Okla-
homan and Even-
ing Free Press
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NEW $100,000 WHOLESALE COMPANY IS THIRTEEN KILLED AND FORTY-FIVE
BEING ORGANIZED BY LOCAL CAPITAL INJURED IN WRECK OF FAST TRAIN
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C. H. Kusael:, vice-president of the
Chtmljor of Commeroe and former man-
agar of tba WUUamaoo-HaleeU-FraLaler
Grocery company in this city leave* Ok-
lahoma City Tuesday evening on an ex-
panded business trip east where the de-
ttatla of the organisation of a 9100,000
[Wholesale tea, coffee and aploe house will
fee worked oat.
The mrehoiMo, factory and general of-
toes of the now oonrpany will be In
Oklahoma City and Mr. Ruaaell will be
>e president of the company, its capital
to be approximately 1100,000. As-
oojated with him In the project will be
M. Duncan, a prominent local busi-
es* man, and several others whoop
ames Mr. Russell refuses to divulge.
MV. Russell will leave Tuesday night
Wew Orleans, thenoe to sevwal points
tha south, Washington, New York
Ohioago and thenoe back to Okla-
Clty when the company will be
launched. He expects to be gone several
Sveeks tn all and announced Tuesday
lenora Rg that the details of the organisa-
tion would be worked out en route.
"The plane hare only matured In a
'.general way thus far," said Mr. Russell
, [Tuesday morning, "and I am not at 11b-
hprty to g!v« the nam«i of the othsr men
who aw* Interested with me In the pro-
feat. The eompany, however, win he
to+ptaaOsed at 9100.000 and Mr Dtmoan
>sflll be associated with me."
Mr. Russell Is one of the b, «t known
^business men In the state, his year* of
labor In connection with the Wiillam-
ieon-Halsell FYasier company glvtng him
E'de acquaintance over the state. Mr.
■eli resigned his position with the
company on .Tune 1, 1911 acainst the
♦wishes of the directors of the company
'**ho made him flattering offers to re-
main with them.
The establishment of a wholesale tea
and coffee houee in the city may mean
that Oklahoma City will eventually be-
teome a distributing house for the soufh-
west as there 1s no other business west
•f Kansas City In the same lines. Mr.
{Russell Is confident that the venture will
k> S success here.
TJX FERRET
REWARD FOR M'BRINE
1 M*
r
It was stated today that Ooveruor
Cruoe will offer a reward for the arreart
of W. R. McBrlne, former warrant clerk
In the office of State Auditor M. HI.
Trapp. McBrine is aocused by Btate Ao-
Altcr Leo Meyer, the incumbent, of hav-
ing forged warrants to the amount of
11,000 and a complete audit of the books,
Is expected to reveal sttn greater frauds.
Anticipating that a reward would be
offered for the return of McBrlne, Pink-
erfcor detectives have already oo-mmerioed
% sea-rob for him.
MAY PAY LAWYER.
According to his application filed In
the district court Monday. Columbus
James Holmea was granted his rights of
majority Tuesday morning and may now
make arrangements to dlspoae of his
property and pny E. A. Wagener, his
attorney, for conducting his defense
The supreme oourt eelebrated its first
appearance In Its new courtroom on the
seventh floor of the Lawrence building
Tuesday by handing down a large num-
ber of opinions of general Interest.
The validity of the tax ferrst law and
the taxea levied under It Is again sus-
tained tn the cataa of Elisabeth O Mclfeal
va F. W. Rltt*i4>uach, oownty treasurer,
from Tjofran oounty. which ta afflrmel
In an opinion by Chief Justice Turner.
This suit was brought to enjoin the ool-
leotlon of taxes levied under the 1§M
aot. on Wblob a warrant we# Issued
prior to the parage of the amendatory
aot of'1909. The binding force of the
enrolled copv of an aot of the legisla-
ture Is again declared, and In this case
It Is stated tha.t while the changed In-
tent of the tlglslature was evidenced by
the emending act, that aot dt<j not re-
lease taxea validly levied under the first
How Long Will This Last?
The "Morning Handbill" continue! to flaunt the black flag in the face
of the street railway company and devotes about one fourth of its editorial
comments to slurs and invectives against the street railway system, its power
plant, its swimming pool and its terminal station. •
It doesn't do this solely because it loves to knock rather than boost,
but chicfly because it believes by so doing it will force the street railway
company and The Classen Company to give the Pointer a nice, juicy little
ad to help support it in similar blackmailing attacks against music stores,
dry goods stores or any other local business houses which do not happen
to find advertising space in the Pointer as profitable as it used to be.
Those scurrilous attacks on substantial business institutions are calcu-
lated not only to force those advertisers to pay an advertising ransom to
the Pointer to secure immunity from such attacks, but are also designed as
a warning to all other merchants and business houses that unless they
continue to advertise in the "Morning Bandit" they will subject themselves
to similar slanderous attacks.
People admire and support a newspaper which seeks to build up every
business institution of its home town and one which at all times boosts for
the welfare of the city and all its Institutions. A paper which files the r©d
flag and throws Its bombs of slander In the midst of its own oommunlty
Is both an Injury and a disgrace to Its dty. It is doubtful If there Is another
city in the United States where such methods could be openly adopted by
any newspaper without losing its entire patronage and support from the
public.
The Pointer has tried for years to tear down and destroy the legiti-
mate, represents!ivc, high-class newspapers of the city and It is now at-
tempting to destroy in the same manner the very business institutions which
have enabled it to grow. It even has the audacity to call frantically upon
the public to conie to its rescue and aid It in its dastardly attempts to wring
money from unwilling advertisers.
E
Washington, July 11. Avlatof Harry
Atwood has arrived in Washington, but
the last six nil lee of his Journey from
Boston was made In an automobile from
College Hark, Md., where he landed with
his Aeroplane at 6:10 a m , today The
young aviator, carrying Charles K. Ham
llton «is a passenger Ui the letter's Bur-
gess-Wright W-plane left Bteamera Run
Md., at 4 40 o'clock this morning and de-
scended st College Park and hour and a
half later, having oovered the forty
miles In slow time
This afternoon 1f good weather prevails
Atwood will crown his air achievement
by flying the remaining alx miles of his
67(1 mile Journey In circling the Washing
ton monument.
When Atwood got here he went to the
ffhorehaun hotel to meet Aviator Bur-
gess, who haa been waiting for him here
Burgess meanwhile had himself set out
for College Park to meet Atwood and
the two missed each other on the roaul
Atwood later returned to College Park.
THIS DEAD
ONE LIVED
YANKEE TEAM IS SEEKING 'GIFT OF
I
aot.
Several ofher opinions of Importance
on tax questions were also handed down
at this time. In th* oase of D. P Tllley
vs. F. M. Overton, county treasurer from
Greer county. Involving the validity of
ths levy of sohool district No. 18, where
the entire levy was made at the annual
school meeting, tha Judgment of the
lower court upholding the levy was af-
firmed. It was claimed that the first
five mUls must be levied by the board
and the remainder, if any, by popular
vote and that any levy in excess of the
five mlTls must be voted by a majority
of all the voters of the dlatrlct The
court overrules both theee contention a.
holding that the first levy eould he made
either way and that a majority of the
voters voting at an election Is suffi-
cient. The opinion is by Justice Hayes.
The rase of R. Marlow vs. School Dis-
trict No. 4, from Murray county, Is re-
versed because evidenoe was admitted In
the form of certificate* from county of-
ficers aa to what their records showed,
Inatead of the certified coplea of the
records themselves. The lower oourt was
ordered to reinstate the case, with per-
mission to renew the motion to dissolve
the temporary Injunction.
ILS LEAVE
TO INSPECTSEINER
ATHLETIC EVENT
linden, July 11.—Ideal weather condi-
tions drew great crowd® to the Queen's
. inb frounde Tuesday to witness the
IJorth International meet between the
picked Tale-Harvard and Cambridge-Ox-
fo«d teams The Americans were strong
favorites, odd a of S to 2 being posted on
them In the betting territory. The
Americana' chances were viewed by the
•porting fraternity as having been mate-
rnity strengthened by the certainty thst
tfelley, the crack quarrer-mller of Har-
vard, would start A trial yesterday
showed he hid entirely reoovered from
his recent Injury.
The American team, came Into town
from Its training quarters several hours
before the time set for the meet They
were In charge of Trainers Donovan and
Mack and went direct to their quarters
st the Queen'a club. The English athlete*
also were on the acene early
AJ1 of 'he thirty-elx young athletes
who constitute the two teams appeared In
l>erfeot condition
Mayor Whit M. Orant and Commis-
sioners J. T. Hlghley and Guy Black -
welder spent practically ths entire day
Tuesday at Elk City Inspecting the Cam-
eron system of sewage disposal now In
operation In that city
Because of tha numerous complaints
registered by citizens living near the
river, south of Pecdringtown, the com-
missioner* have decided that some ac-
tion must be taken to abate the odor
nuisance which Is the cause of all com-
plaints. At times the stenoh is unbear-
able below the mouth of the city's sani-
tary sewer.
Elk City employs the Cameron system
of sewage disposal and It Is said to b«
INDIAN DIVORCE IS
LEGAL, SAYS COURT
Chicago, July 11.— H. H Hitchcock,
first vice president of the Plrst National
Bank, Tuesday declared that Chicago
banks had loaned more than fl,000,000
to James Pettit, for which they did not
have a s<vrap of security.
Pettit was found dead in two feet of
water in I«ake Michigan aeveral days
ago insurance oompanlea will investi-
gate hla death on the theory that hie
business transactions, which altogether
seem to involve the Peavey Grain eom-
pany for more than 11,500,000, caused him
to "ommlt suicide.
The dead man was head of the Peavey
company. The firm has quit the com-
mission business.
PAROLE It REVOKED.
Oovernor Cruce Tuesday revoked the
parole of Roy Cowan, sentenced to three
years from Muskogee county for forgery,
on representations from County Attorney
W. E. Disney that Oowan has again been
charged with forgery and false pretense.
He was convicted on March 1, 1908, and
paroled Just a year later
FIVE BALLOONS
LEAVE IN GREAT
The legality of divorcee according to
Indian custom is sustained by the su-
preme court In the case of Zelda Kerr
vs. Dora Walker, from Pottawatomie
oounty, affirmed, also In an opinion by
Justice Hays. This Involved the status
of a foreigner, born fn Canada, who was
adopted by the Pottawatomie tribe of In-
dian*. He wo* married a second time
to a woman who was not a member of
the trlhle, and later divorced from her
according to tribal customs. The court
holds that a divorce of that sort which
was recognised by the tribe would be
recognized by the courts of the state.
Another Interesting case is that of
Stiver vs. Stiver from Canadian coun-
ty, affirmed In an opinion by Justice
Kane. Stiver deserted his wife and
children in Missouri In 1878, and married
again In Kansas In IMO without getting
a divorce His first Wife went Insane
highly Th. plant r.malned that
m ,r „ ,yv r:'"ntu ''"th. H„ o m. to Oklahoma
^ost but $15,000. It Is believed that a
plant having a capacity of at leest four
million nations per day will be needed
Pittsburg, Pa.. Jlily 11.—Borne remark-
able scenes were enacted Monday night
at the Pentecostal convention of the
"Olft of Tongues," sect. Mora than
fifty persons, men and women, rolled
about in the straw of tha tents seek-
ing a manifestation of the gift of
tongues. The enthusiasm of the re-
ligious meeting broke up a dance given
under the auspl-ces of the Hebrew Ladles
Aid society at Homestead Park.
The principal speaker tonight was
Mrs. .lames B. Hebden of Toronto, Can-
ada, whose husband, the Rev. James
Hebden, lay on his stomach on the plat-
form throughout her address, shouting
and wiggling his ears.
KILLS GIRL'S FATHER.
Princeton, K- , July 11.—A father's ob.
Jectlon to his laughter's escort caused
a tragedy when Fred Morae shot and
killed J. W. Heatnn after Seaton had at
tacked him for walking home with MIk.s
Seaton.
for Oklahoma City and the estimated
cost of such a system Is approximately
$160,000
Commissioners Hlghley and Blackwel-
der. under whose supervision the system
would he Installed If It is selected, are
giving the problem their undivided at-
tention and it la assured that some
change will be made immediately. In
addition to the changes In sewage dis-
posal, the storm sewers in the city
will have to be remodeled, aa was proven
during Sunday's storm.
i with his second wife In 1889 and took
homestead on which he Uved until his
death In 1906 In 1897 he deeded his
homestead to the seoond wife. After his
death the children by the first wife
brought suit to set aside that conveyance
because the deed was not signed by his
DEPUTIES HOLD
WARLIKE NEGRO
BLACK JURY; IS
DENIED; APPEALS
legal wife. The court h<rtds that it was
not tha homestead of the first wife and
that tha dead was not void for want of
signature.
In the cases of the Santa Pe vs. John-
son and the Katy va McLaughlin, In-
volving tha loss of household goods by
raJlroada, the court holda valid the provi-
sions of Special contracts limiting the
rallrued's llr.blllty on such shipments to
$5 per hundred, and reverses the lower
court 1n each case.
The caae of the Pioneer Telephone
company vs. Orant County Rural Tele-
phone company. Involving the making of
physical connections at Pond Cresk,
where the corporation commission re-
quired the Pioneer to InstsJl the neces-
sary apparatus for making such connec-
tions at Its own expense, the court in an
opinion by Justice Wllllauna modifies
the order of the commission so aa to re-
quire the Pond Creek company to bear
the extra expense, and affirms the order
as thus modified.
In the appeal of the Santa Fe In the
Stillwater dpot case, the case 1s re-
manded to the commission on a showing
made that plans for a depot have been
drawn by the company which are satis-
factory to all parties concerned.
NOT ALL BUTCHERS
ARE QUALIFIED TO
CAR MEN PLANNED
RIOT, HE ASSERTS
During s disturbance en f*o ith Robin-
son street last night, it Is alleged, John
Williams, a "bad nlprger." pressed s gun
against the body of Will Kelley. a white
man, and threatened to shoot him
Kelly succeeded In getting away, hoM -
ever, and deputy sheriffs went down to
1218 South Robinson and picked up Wil-
liams They found him In bed, sound
asleep, they say, with a Winchester
rifle and a large revolver as bedfellows
Other occupants of the room were aev-
eral bottles of cheap whisky, all of wb1< h
were taken to the county Jail, where
Williams was put Into a cell and his pos.
sessions In the collection kept by th«
sheriff s force In remembrance of their The killing occurred at Porter on Febrti
unwilling visitors He Is charged wlt'i'ary 25. 1911 McIntosh was a ('reek
assault. nefjro, whose marriago was brought
about prior to his majority in order to
get him to sell his land, and only lived
with his wife a day or two after their
marriage He claimed that she had
threatened to kill him on the day of the
murder.
Jesse McIntosh, a negro, convicted of
the murder of his wife. Lucy McIntosh,
in the district court at Wagoner In April
of this year and sentenced to life im-
prisonment, appealed to the criminal
court of appeals Tuesday. One of the
grounds upon which a new trial la asked
Is the fact that negroes were excluded
from the Jur\, although he alleges that
more than one-third of the population of
•the county and more than one-fourth of
the legal electors belong to that race.
WEDDED BLISS
SHORT LIVED
I
That the striking carmen threatened to
atop car service when nineteen union
labor members were arrested at the car-
barns on June 4, 1911, la the theory ad
ranced by the state In the case ajralnst
them for unlawful assembly. One <<f the
Oklahoma railway employes stated In
J
Y:
Watch the Want Ads
Any day you may find your!
name among the want ads. "When
you do clip it out and toko t<>
the Branch Office, with West
falls. 206 W. Main, nnd you will
be given a freo ticket to Knir
Park TlK-nter. Those whose nnmes
appear today will receive tickets
food for tomorrow nigH
This week the North Bros
Stock company are playing "The |
Gambler and Lady."
county court Tuesday morning that the
men obstructing: the track that morning
said that they were there to aee that
no ara run. and that there would be
10,000 men with them by noon.
Union labor men and their aynipo-
thlrers crowded the county courtroom
Tuesday morning to hear the evidence
in the case of the state against H H
Butterworth, J. W. Karnes, C. O. Moses,
.1. F. Petty, if. T Morton, c. K. Talley.
A. L. Higgins, R. Heece, T. F. Bvanq, A.
Higgins, J O. Webb, C. E. Renfro. W. I,.
Berry, F. F "Wade, J. J. Green, J. F
Detloff, W O. Wrinkles, L. <J. Hoppe
and F J. I*eaoh, the unionists who were
arrested by deputy sheriffs on Sundav
morning, 'vine 4, 1911, .near the ,-ar-
Alleging that his wife, Thelma RJtder.
deserted hihi a little over two months
after they were married, Roy Elder filed
a suit for divorce against her in the su-
perior court Tuesday. Ha says that they
were married In Oklahoma City on Sept.
2, 1909, and that although he supported
her to the best of his ability, she left hira
on Nov. IB, 1909.
IS
SCENE OF FIGHT;
HELD WITHOUT BAIL.
New York, July 11.—LHHaa Graham
and EXhel Conrad, who recently shot W
E. D. Stokes, millionaire proprietor of
the Hotel Anaonta, were held for the
grand Jury Tueaday by Magistrate Fres-
chl without ball on the charge of at-
tempted murder.
On the hearing before the pure food
commlsalon on tha citation Issued against
Hall A, Co., wholesale meat dealers of
this ctty, charged with having In their
poasesslon for sale meat which woe unfit
for uae, one of the members of the firm
testified that ha did not believe that
one man out of twenty-five engaged In
the meat business wes qualified to tell
good meat from bad, and that his own
information on the subject was alto-
gether of a general character
Inspector Emery seized and condemned
300 pounds of meat at the Hall warehouse
on July 3. Mr. Hall sold thst he whs
absent on the day when the meat was
condomned, and was unable to speak In
regard to the meat, but did not dispute
the findings of the inspector
Kansas City, Mo., July 11.—Only five
bslloons left in the raoe for tha James
Gordon Bennett cup at noon Tuesday. The
Topeka T, the pilot balloon, came down
Monday, while the New Tork landed at
Fremont, Neb., Tuesday.
A measage from Linby, Towa, says that
the balloon Kansae City, Honeywell, pilot,
landed there early today and that the
pilot and hla aide slept ail night In the
basket
Tha other balloons are scattered over
Missouri, Towa and Illinois.
Memphis. Mo., July 11.- Two of the
balloons which left Kansas City Monday
afternoon passed over Sootland county
this morning at 8.SO o'clock. One of them
was visible for several minutes at Mem-
phis. The other paased over the north
I art of the county along the Iowa line
and waa seen at Hltt, In this county.
The halloona were going east and slightly
north when they passed over this section.
Keokuk, lowe, July 11.—-An unidentified
balloon passed over here at a jpreat
height today, traveling northeast.
Ottumwa, Towa, July 11.--One balloon,
| name not dlsrernable, passed Farming-
ton, Iowa, at 5:4B a m It was headed
eastward. Another bag nassed Moravia,
Sewal and Mystic at 7:18 a. m.
SMALLPOX SWEEPS
CANADIAN DISTRICT
I Winnepeg, Man . July 11. An epldeunlo
of smallpax Is sweeping over the dta-
j trict to the north and east of here. Sever-
jal h um d red men working on a power
olan< at Point Du Bols are quarantined
! along with a physician who was sent
to quarantine the town and himself con
! treated the disease
Tt he* spread to lac Du Bonnel, head-
quarters of the Winnepeg Electric Rail
way company, to Fort Alexander, where
i there are forty oases and to other pla/res
The disease broke out in February among
j half breed Indiana In the neighborhood
ili«t« ly some of them appeared in Wln-
jnlpeg and caused a panic
Bridgeport, Oonn., July 11.—Tha en-
gine, tender, baggage oar and five
heavy aleepers of the Washlngton-Boe-
ton expraas on the New Tork. New Hav-
en A Hartford railroad plunged from a
trestle while speeding through the out-
skirts of this city at J :*0 o'clock this
momlns, orashlng in a twisted mass of
wood and steel to the street below.
Within thr*e hours the bodies of thirteen
dead had beer taken out of the wreck-
age and fort-five Injured had been
sent to the Bridgeport hospitals. The
police declared that there were at least
eight more bodiea in the wreck and said
the death Het might ran far above
twenty. The engineer, fireman, con-
ductor and several others of the train
crew are among the dead.
On the wrecked train were the mem-
bers of the Rt. l/ouis National league
baseball club, speeding to Boston, whera
they were scheduled to plav this after-
noon. They were all in the two rear
coaches, which were the only ones thai
escaped derailment and Injury. The ball
plavers were the heroes of the wreck.
Clad In their night clothes they plunged
Into the emoking wreckage and rescued
a dor.en or more tnjured and Imprisoned
passengers from what otherwise would
have bean certain death.
Fifty Miles an Hour.
Tha train, one of the fastest express
trains on the road, was running from
Washington to Boston with every berth
ocoupled. It makes no stop at Bridge-
port and was running fifty miles an hour
when It lumped the overhead crossing at
Fairfield avenue Early investigation,
indicated that there was something
wrong with the switch. The engine
leaped atralght into the air and over
the side of the trestle, pulling the ten
der and six rare with it. No sooner hsd
the wreckage piled up hi the atreet than
the baggage car caught fire. The flamen
threatened to spread to the eteepera,
where many injured passenirers were im -
prlaoned. A chemical engine was rushed
to tha acene, however. In time to avert
the added horror of incineration of the
injured and dead.
The identified dead are:
Charles Chrlatle, Philadelphia.
Infant son of Lieut. George S. Rogeis,
U S. A.
Mrs. George Rogers, wife of Lieutenant
Rogers, Washington.
George W. Sanders, New London, Conn.
Helena B. Waloott, address unknown
The other dead are:
Two unidentified women.
Unidentified boy about I years eld.
Two unidentified men.
Unidentified negro.
Among the injured are
Mra. Mary Hcholloser, Philadelphia
Mlas Belle Dorsey, Washington
Mlsa Josephine Slssoti. New Haven.
Henry Chrlstman, Mlddletown, Va
Henry A. Wallace, Hell Bridge, Maine.
Frank A White, Boston.
Mrs. Nellie Pletsane and child John,
and daughter Beatrice, Chevychase. Ind
Mrs. Sarah Clark, Washington
Mra. Ivols Hartman, Washington.
Augustine Grigsby, Washington.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.)
FAILURE OF FIRM
OF STRANGE DEATH
Chicago, July 11.—A $T60,000 tangle,
which has brought the business of tho
Peavy Grain company to a sudden halt,
today caused consternation on the board
of trade. The tangle follows close on
the heels of the finding of the body of
James Pettit, who was the head of the
concern.
With the announcement that the con
cern would discontinue Its business, it
was ata*ed that It would retire from the
commission business In Chicago. The
decision to quit came after the directors
of the Corn Exchange, First Nations'
bank, when It came out when the firm
was Involved to the extent of $760,000
An accompanying statement that the
banks were fully protected from loss fol-
lowed the announcement It Is sahj the
action will not affect the Peavy Elevator
company, which Is a separate concern
Tettit's body was found several days
ago in two feet of water in tho lake
near his home on the North Shore. Ru-
mors flint he committed suicide were
denied by his friends.
HELD FOR THBPT.
Elmer Hodge, who lives in Parking-
town, la under arreet charged with petty
laroeny. the aot In question being the
taking of a boy's bicycle Hodge la a
married man with two ohlldren and his
arrest wae a aurprlae to many of his
friends.
T
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E i-
nlawfu!
■aid he
nhlv
tracks and right of way «i the northi
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(CONTINUED ON PAjOE TWa]
OUTLOOK FOR NEW
RAILROAD BRIGHT
Candidates M. & M. Contest
OWING TO THE LARGE NUMBER OF LABELS AND
CERTIFICATES BROUGHT AND SENT IN ON THE
LAST DAYS OF THE CONTEST, IT WILL REQUIRE
TEN DAYS OR TWO WEEKS TO COMPLETE THE
COUNT There are seven clerks counting these votes us
fast as accuracy will permit, and as soon as the count is
completed and verified, announcement of the winners and
total number of votes cast by all candidates will be pub-
lished. No information whatsoever will be given until of-
ficial announcement is made through the columns of The
Oklahoman and Free Press.
Ratification by the board of directore
of both the local Chamber of Commerce
and the Missouri, Oklahoma &, Gulf
railroad of the tentative agreement
reached at a conference of the company's
officials and the Chamber of Commerce
lallroad committee ie all that is needed
to assure construction of the Keneflck
line to Oklahoma <*itv.
Eventually it will mean the growth of
a northwestern system through the rich
northwestern country to Woodward
President William Keneflck and Chief
Engineer J J. Harrison of the Missouri,
Oklahoma & Gulf conferred with the
local railroad committee and several of
the directors, including J. H Johnston.
O. P Workman. I K 'Jaylord, John W
Hiiartel, A. II Classen and K !•". Blabee.
Monday.
red ti
idsd
tee his Una
uld
ext
Now, this plan has to be lailfied by
tHe board of dire, tors of the railroe-l
' The Chamber of rommercM board of dl-
rectora also haa to pa«s upon it au<j then
the right of way secured This Is the
least of the troublea of the commercial
organisation.
President Keneflck and his engineer
left Monday night for Muskogee, wher>'
nearly all of the directors of the M., 0,
& r, reside. It Is believed that the
railroad officials will pass favorably upo.i
the proposition as soon as the Chamber
of Commerce notifies President Keneflck
of the success in securing the right of
way.
The entrance of the Fort Smith &
Western over the same tracks Is still uu
uncertainty, but It is almost sure that
such an arrangement will be made. It
Is the desire of the railroad committee
to have ^II things worked out by Thurs-
thal
the
finally
ettl«
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Stafford, R. E. The Evening Free Press (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 205, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 11, 1911, newspaper, July 11, 1911; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc151847/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.