The Weekly Times-Journal. (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, January 31, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME XIX
THE ONLY PAPER IN THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA RECEIVING THE FULL ASSOCIATED PRFSS LEASED WIRE DAV REPORT
OKLAHOMA"CITYrOKLAT FKIDAY, JANUARY"!!, ll>« '8
NUMBER 37
BOLD ROBBERY OF ADAM'S EX- POLICY OF GOVERNMENT DURING LATE
i
SLUG AGENT
AND ESCAPE WITH
$3,GOO
Later Captured at Neighboring
Town and Money Recovered
— tViany People In Wait,
ing Room at Time
LOOSE
METHODS
FOLLOWED
Mansfield, O., Jan. 29—Shortly after
midnight last night two masked men
entered the ofllce of the Adams Ex-
press company at the union station
here, knocked William Depew, the
agent, unconscious and got away with
$3,000 while nearly tifty passengers
stood about the station waiting for
trains. A bag containing $40,000 in
gold lying near the $3,000 was over-
looked by the robbers.
The men on entering the office ask-
ed Depew for a package they said
must have arrived on train too late
for delivery. While Depew was look-
ing fur the supposed package one of
the robbers struck him <>n the head
with a gas pipe and knocked him un-
conscious.
The other robber covered George
McGinity, a friend of Depew, with a
revolver and the first robber then went
through the safe. Then, keeping Mc-
Ginity covered, the men ran from the
express oflice and disappeared.
Depew lay unconscious for more
than an hour after aid had been sum-
moned by McGinity. When the rob-
bery was reported, Detective Fltz-
geral dof the Pennsylvania railroad
force and the local police made a
number of arrests but none of them
have been identified by Depew and
McGinity. Bloodhounds were this
morning placed on the scent.
Telegrams were promptly sent to th *
police of all nearby towns and as a
result John McCue and Joseph Stevens
were taken into custody at New Lon-
don. They had the sack taken from
the express office containing $3,000.
Stevens, the police say, confessed
and implicated McGinity. According
to Stevens' story the money arrived
late last night from Delphos, Ohio,
and was consigned to a bank at
Hamilton. Ohio. Stevens said Mc-
Ginity, who has a reformatory record,
tipped off the arrival of the money
and cocked up the scheme with him
and McCue to rob the office. As soon
as this information was wired here,
McGinity was locked up. IIu denies
the charge.
Pas:
Primary Law.
Topeka. Kan., Jan. 2D.- The senate
last night passed the direct primary
election bill agreed on by the confer-
ence committee by a vote of 37 to 2.
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❖ WEATHIiK FORECAST. ❖
<• Tonight fair and warmer In
❖ the east portion and fair and
❖ warmer Thursday. The cold •>
❖ wave predicted yesterday arriv- •>
<♦ ed last night and the coal man •>
❖ is busy again. •>
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BROTHER OF ARCHITECT HUS.
TON GIVES SENSATIONAL
TESTIMONY IN TRIAL OF
CAPITOL bRAFTtUG
DIFFERENT SCHEDULES
Used For Purchasing and Pay-
ing For Funnshings--San-
Uerson Acted Without
Authority
Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 29.—Startling
testimony was given by the Rev. Sam-
uel Huston, of Philadelphia, at the
trial today of the conspiracy suits
against former Auditor General Sny-
der, former State Treasurer Mat hues,
Contractor J. H. Sanderson and James
M. Shumaker, former superintendent
of grounds and buildings. Huston is
a brother of Architect Joseph M. Hus-
ton, who was Indicted Jointly with
these four defendants and secured a
separate trial with the consent of the
commonwealth.
Rev. Mr. Huston testified that dur-
ing the architect's absence In Europe
In the interest of the state the witness
was a clerk. Before Huston went
away he left Architects certificates In
blank with his name signed to them.
S'anderson, who supplied the furniture
for the capltol, called at the office and
secured from the witness a certificate
which he said Snyder demanded be-
fore Issuing a warrant for the pay-
ment of Sanderson's bill. The witness
also said Sanderson told him Shumak-
er would approve the bill and that
erythlng would be all right. On this
assurance Huston gave the certifate
to Sanderson. This certificate is at-
tached to a bill for furniture in the j
indictment in the suit now on trial. |
The commonwealth will now try to
prove that this furniture was contract-
ed for under one item in capltol fur-
nishing schedule and paid for under
another Item in this schedule.
Former Governor Pennypacker is
here under subpoena as u witness for
the defense.
Rev. Huston was still on the stand
when recess was taken.
Stanford B. Ijewis, of Philadelphia,
assistant to Architect Huston, was a
witness for the commonwealth and
had preceeded Huston on the stand.
Lewis Is one of the fourteen defend-
ants. He was asked today to identify
a copy of a letter sent by Huston to
Sanderson, notifying him that he had
been awarded the contract for the cap-
ltol furnishings, endorsing the "quali-
ties plan" and directing the contrac-
tor to furnish the articles in accord-
ance with these plans. The common-
wealth claims this is the furnishings',
the total value of which was $5,487,-
899 45, and upon which his profits in
some instances wan alleged to have |
been as much as 4.000 per cent.
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THH RIVAL SEREXAD 10ItS
CENTURIES
OLD CEREMONIES
OBSERVED
I Senai
ANSWERS CRITICS
Complete Explanation of Purposes and Aetna! Output of
[ unds During Financial Crisis—Great Heneiii of
Government Action Made Clear Crisis
Greater liian Supposed
Washington, Jan. 15 —The reply of
Secretary Cortelyou to the senate reso-
lution calling f' i information concern-
ing tHe operations of tin- treasurj de-
partment in c< nneetlon with the recent
financial crls.s was laid before the
senate toda> by the vice president.
The document was not read, but a
printed copy of it was on the desk "i
each senat-i • and nearly all of them
at once ga\e It his attention.
Mr. Culberson Inquired of the vice
president whether the pamphlet con-
tained all of the secretary's communi-
cation. The vice president said he had
not examined the report and d«: not
know whether the pamphlet contained
all of the message.
"1 do not recall an Instance." stild
Mr. Culberson, "In which a he.id of a
department of the government has an-
•eholutlon in printed
tor from Massachu-
nator Tillman, turn
lng to Senator Lodge, "who is such a
stickler for senatorial dignity and sen-
atorial right*, to i aplj to this inquiry"
"l do not know," responded Mr
Lodge, "whether a cabinet of fleer evt r
sent In a printed report of thi^ kind •-
a convenience and 1 do not think it is
a matter of Importance. The entire
reply wiU be printed t
i d Mr. Tillman,
legal because t
ng or In print."
ed that all the
of the treasury
iite in printed
BILL TO
REMOVE
RESTRICTIONS
Special to The Times-Journal.
Washington, I). C., Jan. 29.—The
administration bill removing the re-
strictions on seven million acres of In-
dian land in Oklahoma and permitting
the secretary of the interior to remove
other restrictions was Introduced in
the house by Congressman McGuire
and in the senate by Senator Clapp to-
day.
(Continued on Page Two.)
GEORGE ME IS SUBJECT
OF A PRACTICAL JOKE
INDIANA SOCIETY
Of Chicago Have Sport at Noted
Authors' Expense During
Banquet at Auditorium
Annex
Chicago, Jan. 29.—Dramatist George
Ade's alleged "affinity," fashionably
attired but with a voice filled with bit-
terness, tears of woe streaming down
her cheeks, and with a dramatic ulr
which carried conviction, entered the
Auditorium Annex last night, where
the members of the Indiana society of
Chicago were gathered for a spread.
She claimed Ade as her own. caused
blushes of the brightest crimson to
mantle his cheeks and then led him
away to one side, where she tried to
converse amicably with him The
stranger claimed to be from France
The members of the Indiana society
were all deeply chagrined for the time
being by the unlocked for intrusion,
and especially as Ade was one of the
guests of honor Chagrin changed to
hilarity when fite feminine treble of
tl|e supposed "affinity" changed to a
der^i bass, nnd the fact bi<. ne ap-
parent that the stranger wan t a wo-
man at all Just a plain member of the
society with false hair and other fix-
ings It was all n Joke anyhow.
The Occasion was the Indiana so-
ciety's third anniversary, the celebra-
tion starting with .1 reception at the
press club, where President Richard
Henry Little toasted the 100 members,
and concluded early tills morning In
Hie ball room of the Annex with verses
by Wilbur Nesbit on "Indiana as a
itate of mind*"
\ A
legal ?
certain!)
secretary can coi
ress either in typ*
Mr. A Id rich re
reports of the sect
o tho
Mr. Tillman retorted to this s
tion by declaring:
tre.i-
sumlng the airs of a preside
ire he Is elected to that office
>nds his message i
i, but I hu e never
Mr. Aldrlch said tha' there
great deal of statistical natter
reply of the secret try. That p
now being printed while th- '
the rap*irt had been laid bel
by a long letter from Secretary Cor-
i telyou to the president of ilie senate,
I embraces a Iht of depositaries and tho
amount of money placed on deposit
therein In various dates; a lit of other
: banks with the amounts of national
tie posits, and tho seeurltj held thero-
I for; statements showing the condition
1 of hanks on August 22, 1907, and l>e-
| i ember 3, 1907, and the amount of
bank notes outstanding at various
periods; lists of banks and Individual^
j who received Panama canal bonds and
; lints of those whp bid for the bonds
without receiving an allotment: and
j subscriptions >f 3 per cent certificate*
I of indebtedness data concerning
j clearing house certificates issued dur-
I ing the panic and'a budget of cir-
| cui us, press announcements and cor-
j respondenee relating to government
\ financial transaction that took plica
I during the period mentioned In the
! resolutions
| Secretary Cortelyou before analyz-
. ing the crisis and setting forth his
| official action In regard to the report,
gives a summary of occurrences In the
' t'nlted St. !< s financial world from the
: lime he assumed charge until the spe-
. :d report was compiled. Tie states
j that business conditions were becom-
ing unsettled when he became finan-
cial member of the cabinet In March,
j 1 HOT. Various trlngencles occurred
I prior to August, which were promptly
| relieved. A plan of weekly deposit!
i of go\crnmcnt funds In vaiMoti banks
j wa- begun on August 2N Hy October
14 ilv deposits had reached a total
I of * 'Hid.000. In October occurred
j thi ' i ring events In New York which
: ( Mini > ited In the closing of the
j Knickerbocker Trust company and th*
decision of Now York banks t > Issuo
j clearing horn • certificates, the treasury
I transferred to national ban! - within
days the stkm of tr 000,OtQ,
and in - mittod to New York within
Ihr . i!a\ .1 out $39,000,000 In small
Great Prrcautions Taken lo Pre-
vent Outbreak ot Suffragists
Who Threatened Dem-
onstration
London, Jan. 2'
vent of a London .
Newton, Kan., Jan. 29.-
early today that threatens
ness destroyed half a do:
causing a loss of $l.r>0,000. TI
man hardware and Implemen
pany-' building and other smal
ings, together with thirty-five
in the Thompson liver) stubl
consumed.
da j
•orei
to Westiuln
the roj
r toda
al proc
whe
VVhhit.
Kan , Jai
-Tw
King Edward open «i parliament with j nes-
the same ceremonies that have been I pot
observed for centui a s | Kan
King Edward am Queen Alexandra broh
rode from Buckingham palace to the The
houses of parliament in a gilded coach j barn
of state drawn by eight white horses. Fe «
They were attended by the officials of stret
their household* in other state carri- railr
ages and on h .r#eba< k. St. James park telef
an«l White H ill were unusually crowd- lire
ed, and the "ddlei who guarded tho | pla<
way had their hands full in keeping
the people back.
A thousand officials, including peers,
members of the house of commons,
bishops, judges an< diplomats, many
of them attired In uniform or robes of
state, filled the
when a fanfare
o'clock announc
state procession.
King Edward read the speech from
the throne. Queen Alexandra was
seated on a chair or state at his right;
the Prince and Princess of Wales were
on his left, and he was surrounded by
a group of state officers.
The menace of an outbreak on the
part of the women suffragists of Eng-
land gave an unusual interest to the
formal proceedings of today. While it
was not anticipated that the aglta-
(Contlnued on Page Two).
lepot ;
ruber of the lords |
trumpets at two
the entry of the
left f
nginc
train.
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George Ade.
George Ade, the newspaper man, whOBC "Fables in Slang" have made
him both rich and famous, was born at Kentland, Ind.. on February 9, 1806
He is a graduate of Purdue University, takina his degree In lHttT. Ade went
to Chicago and entered Into journalism. He was on the Record from 18i*0
until 1900, when he left regular work to give his entire time to the writing
of plays. His ^Sultan 6f Sulu'' made a tremendous hit. as did also his show
"The Hho-Gun " Ade's best work, although perhaps not the best from a
financial standpoint, has been In his stories of Hoosler life. Ade Uvea most
of the time on a splendid farm, called llaxeldeo, near Brook. Ind*
EVERY ACVERIISER
Desires to reach the peo-
ple ivho want what he
wants them to have.
The Times-Journal offers
the best medium for that
purpose, since it goes into
the home and is read.
Times'Journal Want Ads
bring results.
See Page 7 for Special Offgr.
A. M. DcBolt Gives Testimony Before the K.nlw .iv Commission I his Morning and Asks
Some Reliel An Executive Session WiU Be Held This Evening
- I he Purpose ol the Coiifercnco
Charging that the rallroai
railroad employes were xtea
from his curs and that the
problem confronting the cou
Is the matter of shortage, A
Bolt, se. retary of the < >klah
Re
all
pea red bef.
slons of Ok lab
I Ti fta todft} id
purpose of the
the legislature ,i
alleged shortage
"What we wa
the
"In
better. We want oim > \
this matter of short ine more
reduction of freight rat-
"I might cite you to an i " '
j a coal shlpi' ont to m in th'
I car when It whs «l# iIv<■" d to i
19,500 pounds of coal shoit
show«u a shortaKS of 2.,♦.•wo
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Brown, Cortez. The Weekly Times-Journal. (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, January 31, 1908, newspaper, January 31, 1908; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc155117/m1/1/: accessed April 20, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.