Garfield County Press. And Enid Wave-Democrat (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 13, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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BUTE FRIDAY EVE.
MUSKOGEE. ENID AND OKLAHO-
MA CITY ARE MEMBERS
OF LEAGUE.
THREE NEIOSIEEMING
Local Students Prepare Reception for
Visitors—Special Exercises
Will Be Held
The first of the triangular de-
bates between Muskogee, Oklahoma
City and Enid high schools will be
held Friday night in the Chritian
church. The Muskogee team comes
tomorrow to open the contest. An-
other debating team will leave in
the morning for Oklahoma City to
engage the high school iu debate
arfSdfi Count
and Enid Wave-Democrat
■mow TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS PALL WHERE THEY MAY.'
ENID, (Garfield County), THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1911.
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VIEW OF BROADWAY LOOKING WEST.
GEORGE WHITE, 11.
in the evening.
On the arrival of the Muskogee
team, a committee of the local high
school will meet at the train and
take the debaters to lunch. In the
afternoon at two-thirty, special ex-
ercises will be held to entertain the
visitors. Following the exercises the
reception committee will take the
Muskogee team and tour the city in
automobiles. There will be about
five cars, it is expected, as many
of the high school students will ac-
company the party.
b: ing Muskogee at Muskogee.
The debaters who leave in the
morning for Oklahoma City are Will
Kerbergen, Elvira Cook and George
Storm. W. S. Doty will accompany
them. A telegram received today
from the Jeffersonian club at Okla-
homa City states that a reception
and banquet is beiug planned for
the Enid team. The E. H. S. rep-
r< sentatives will be given an auto-
mobile ride and a stage reception.
The judges selected for the Oklaho-
ma City contest are Prof. J. W.
Marshall, J. S. Buchanan, of the
University of Oklahoma, and Su-
perintendent Evans of Ardmore.
A very interesting feature of the
debates, is the announcement that
will be made of the result in each
o« the three cities at the conclusion
of the contests. As soon as the de-
bate is ended in Oklahoma City, the
outcome will be wired here and over i bank guaranty law by Governor Lee
the circuit, and the results of allM'ruce has been made public:
the (!• bates made known the same1 So far as my investigation goes,
evening. no banking law, either state or*na-
1 uonal, has been passed in this gov-
0. C. U. COMMENCEMENT ' ernment's history that has met with
as strong and determined opposition
_ .. , as the Oklahoma banking law, and
.,ay 25-30 State Convention Fol-, eapedally that (eature of it whlch
lows May 31-June 2nd. provides for the guarantee of de-
posits placed in sta'e banks. In
The faculty of the university met ,^ eflorU dUl.reim aud over.
on Wednesday, March 12, and de-l|hrow tWg Jaw_ Jtg enemie> hav(J
,id«d upon the following dates for;[aken unfa,r advaulagc, bave
DEPLORES ACTtON OF NATIONAL HIKERS IN SEEKING TI OESTROr TIE STATE
LAW—CHARGES UNFARE lAIERE UNSED—"IF CONFLICT COMES
STATE WILL NOT SHRINK"—DENOUNCES INSTITUTIONS WRIER
HAVE USED GUARANTY LAW TO GET DEPOSITS AND
TREN NATIONALIZED.
The following defense
omniencement exercises;
Glee Club recital May 25
(This being the last pay entertain-
ment of the season.)
The Faculty Concert May 20
The High School Play (0. C, U.)..
May 27
I he Bacc alaureate Address, by Rev
U. S. Priest of Wichita, . .May 28
l he Oratorical Contest for the Pier-
purposely misrepresented and mis-
stated facts, and are now circulat-
ing all sorts of false rumors con-
cerning its practical operation, but
be it said to the credit of the intel-
ligent depositors of this state, that
all of these false accusations have
failed to weaken their confidence in
the stability of our law. Had the
! same statements betfh made concern-
att-Whitlock Medal .... May 291
. __ , . ing national banks that have been
Address by A. McLear of Cincinnati, | ; _
President of the American Chris-
tian MissTbnary Society, ..May 30
Music Commencement . . May 5-23
Tile last student recital in the
vocal department will occur
May 5th.
MONROE GOODE, '13.
The Christian church, where the
debate will be held, is being nicely
decorated for the occasion. It is
probable that Attorney E. L. Swi-
gert will be the presiding officei.
iEarly today only one of the three
judges had been selected, J. L. Ab-
ibott, professor of history in the
Central Normal at Edmond.
The Muskogee debaters are Her-
bert Towne, Walter Town* and Al-
len Brown. One of the teachers
of the Muskogee high school, Prof.
Irwin, will accompany them. The
alternate is Miss Blanche Johnson.
The Enid team is composed of
made concerning our state banks
during the past sixty dasy, many of
the national banks of Oklahoma
would now be iu the hauds of a re-
ceiver, and financial pauic state-
wide would have swept over the
atuto. There is u reason for this,
and that reason is to be found in
the operation of the law in Oklaho-
ma. After more than three years
of trial, no depsoitor in any state
bank iu Oklahoma has ever lost o^o
penny of his money, and though
we have had severaj banks liquid-
ated under our state banking law.
no Inconvenience has be^n felt t>y
any man paving his (Ipposit in state
bunks, nor has any depositor had to
hal-
I Icnge the enemies of the Oklahoma
I banking law to find another state in
! the union where conditions of this
kind prevail.
My experience in banking has
Hutchinson Co. Seem to been ia natl0Dttl banks' an<* It cf""
AT WORK ON SQUARE
Mr. Butterfield, who is hired
to look after the beautifying of the
city, has under him Mf. Purdue
who is cleaning up and cultivating
the court house yard.
The yard has been plowed up and
the county commissioners are push-
ing the planting of bermufla grass
ail over the square. The shrubbery
will also be planted in appropriate j ^'alt qdb day for his^money^l
places.
GREEN TRADING STAMP
PEOPLE OPEN OFFICE
Sperry
Be Dfllng Big Business Through
Their Enid Office.
tainly cannot bo said of me that
1 am biased in favor of state hanks
| have studied this question from
The Sperry and Hutchinson Co cuttcelv*blt> standpoint; I have
of New York City, have Ueciiled to studied it from the position of aI accommodate themselves to It
open a local Premium Parlor In this i national bank, and he.ve sought out | better it will be for all banking
city and have taken lease on the | ">e arguments that could be used I institutions In the state. It is Im-
Mehew building 011 North Grand against our law, and 1 have no hes-| material with me what is said of
the that I am both surprised and pained
to find that scarcely had the legis-
lature ceased its labors until there
tame from many Quarters of the
state what now seems to be a pre-
concerted effort on the part of many
of the leading national bankers of
Oklahoma to discredit and over-
throw the state banking law. i hope
that this effort on their part will
cease. 1 fconflict comes, it will
come by reason of the unfair attack!
on the part of the national banaeri,
anu i want to say her* aud uow,
that if a conflict doe* come, and
the state of Oklahoma is driven to
the necessity of fighting for the
existence of tUe guaranty principle,
which it has established among its
people, the state will not shrink
from the conflict.
Practically one-half of the state
mouey now held by the treasurer of
this state is deposited in national
banks in Oklahoma, though the st$ta
banks outnumber the nation^ banks
in the proportion two to one.
What is true of the state money, [
am sure, is likewise true of the city
and county money# iu Oklahoma.
Certainly the national banks cannot
claim that they have been unfairly
treated in this regard. If these
funds were to be witndrawn (com
the national banks antf dialled in
the state banfcSj U would increase
deposes the state banks seveu
millions of dollars, and \yould cor-
respondingly decrease national bank
deposits to that extent. That tbe
legislature has the Tight to pa*>s
such a law, uo $39 will question,
and that U Would be the duty of j
I lie legislature to pass such a law, I
1' it became necessary in the proper
defense of our banking law, every
fair minded man will coawd*.
The supreme court of the United
States has decidta that our law is
constitutional ,and in founded upon
just aud equitable principles. This
law i* a fixture in Oklahoma, and
the sooner the enemies of the game,
and especially the national bankers
of the state, realize this fact and
the
ing used the state banking laws of
Oklahoma to build up a splendid
volume of deposits, and after having
advertised to their depositors that
their money would be secure if
placed in their banks, by reason of
the Oklahoma banking law—now
that they feel they are secure in
these deposits, they have sought to
escape liability to the depositors by
converting their banks into national
banks. Should <Mie of these convert-
ed banks now go into the hands of
a receiver, judging from the expe-
rience of all other national bank
failures, many of th'esQ depositors
would suffer financial loss by reason
of the failure. Had any of them
failed before it converted, no such
logs would have been suffered by the
depositors. I contend that this is
unfair treatment to the man, who,
relying upon the security 0f our
lawt Wan placed his libbey in these
converted banks,
There his been some reckless
banking 'n Oklahoma, just as there
has been in every other state In the
union, but it will be the efTort of
the present banking board to place
the dishonest banker where he prop-
erly belongs—in the state penitenti-
ary, Unburdened of dishonest bank-
ers, stripped of i.ta Incompetent ones,
the Oklahoma bank, guarantee law
will continue to live and be a bene-
faction to the thousands of trusting
depositors in Oklahoma who commit
their savings into the keeping of
state banks operating under this
law.
along the proposed line of escape
began two months ago. At the time
the report was given out that the
troops had been assigued to crush
out small uprisings in the various
states but it is believed now that
the real reason was to make ready
for the president's escape, if it
should be necessary in order to save
his life.
New York.—The United States
gave Mexico a 60 days ultimatum to
disavow the secret treaty with Jap-
an, a photograph copy of which was
carried from Mexico City to the
state department in Washington by
Ambassador Wilson, where it was
meekly accepted, according to a
special dispatch to the New York
Sun today.
According to the dispatch the
treaty granted the Japs a coaling
station ou the Pacific and also gave
them the right to colonize. It fur-
ther declares that the treaty was
ratified by Diaz and his cabinet.
El Paso, Texas.—News from Culi-
acan, Sinaloa, is that reinforcements
reached Lieutenant Colonel Morelos
at Badiraguato, where the insurrec-
tog had him cooped up and that the
ipsurrectos retired, leaving the fed-
erals in possession of the town. The
reinforcements had machine guns.
The Insurrectos have raided the
town of Sinaloa near Culiacan and
carried off many horses and other
supplies. Federals and ingurrectos
were still fighting on Friday at Vel-
ardena, according to mail advices
received tonight by the Herald. The
battle had been in progress since
Wednesday morning. Velardena is
near Torreon in the Htate of Duran-
go. Bridges have been destroyed
between Torreon and Pasajo and the
wires cut Trinidad bridge, near
Torreon, has been degtroyed a sec-
ond time.
American General Dead.
Mexicali, Mex., April 10.—Gen-
eral tSanley Williams, who was
wounded yesterday in the spectacu-
lar assault when his little force of
&0 men engaged the entire eighth
battalion of the Mexican army, died
today in the improvisioned hospital
established by the United Slates
troops at Calexico.
He was buried tonight in the lit-
tle graveyard at Mexicali, just be-
hind the breastworks. Williams'
death was caused by a missile that
ploughed through the head at the
base of the skull, tearing away the
rear portion of the brain.
While not as sanguinary as the
rebels themselves at first believed,
! the defeat of Williams nevertheless
_ proved a perfect rout of the attack'
MORE LIGHT IS GIVEN ON THE ,n
PRES. DIAZ PLANS
TO ESCAPE
JAPANESE TREATY.
post
1 it an
in now affirming that tne our banking law outside of the
avenue, one door gouth of thi
office. principle of guaranteeing deposits state. I don't expect a fair inter-
C. B. Pettinger, local manager, as 8°und, and just iuicep-j pretatlon of our law, or a truthful
MEXICAN WAR IE! RAGING
MISS EDITH GJLSON, '11.
Monroe Goode, Edith GHson and
Geo. White.
Under the plan of holding the tri-
angular debates, each school has
two teams. One team debates at
home and always takes the affirma-
tive side of the question. Tomorrow
night, an Enid team will contest
with Oklahoma City at that place,
U now having Hie room fitted Mr "ll'e uf iltmioiutrMlon,
this purpose, and hope# to have «v-! "> principle of Injuring property
erything In readiness by the time: against loss by fire, or the human
the car load of premiums arrive. ; family against loss by the ravages
The business of this company disease and death.
has increased rapidly since their ] terested in all the banking instltu-
establishment here. Their drawing ! Hons of the state, whether sta'e or
card is the discount for cash prin-: national, I have at all tlmea treated
cipje. There are now twenty-two with absolute fall'tiens and lmpar-
mercbants In this city handling Ibeitiality the different classes of banks
j stamps, and the business l belli#} As the governor of this state, in-
operated in fifteen nearby towns, j (n oklahoma. There should be u
through the Enid office. * j conflict between state and national
banks, and this conflict, l have tried
of | in every possible way to avoid. At
n 'he recent session of the legislature
j when an effort was made to have a
law passed that would compel the
Mis. ,T. B. Wagoner, formerly of1 deposit of all public funds In state
i Bnid, who has been seriously 111 at banks, 1 opposed the proposition, be-
her home In Saratoga Springs, N. 1 ause I believed It unfair to dis-
I V., Is reported to be Improving, ftl-1 criminate against national banks,
| though still In a serious condition, and that such a law would tend to
j invite a conflict between state and
Mrs. Anna Logan and daughter; national banks. My efforts In that
of North Enid were visitors In j direction were successful. The leg-
statement of its operation to coma ln,unectoi Are Defeated in Battle
from its enemies beyond the borders
Attorney A. E. Hammonds
Lawton was in town this week
professional business.
of Oklahoma. The bankers of the
nation, who have grown rich from
depositors' money, will always fight
any effort made to protect the inter-
of the depositors, when that ef-
fort entails any sort of expense of
burden upon the bunkers themselves.
These bankers realize the Inevitable.
They know full well that if the Ok-
lahoma banking law rannot be
speedily ovrthrowu. that all of their
misrepresentations, all of their so-
phistry and arguments, will count
for naught, and in the end, th mil-
lions of depositors of this republic,
whose money is now beln ffused by
bankers to build up large surplus
and undivided profit accounts and to
pay big dividends, will demand of
the various states of the union, laws
similar to the one in Oklahoma.
One thing In this state has re-
cently come to pass that Is to be
deplored several of the leading
—An American Leader Is
Slain.
force. Fifty men who partici-
pated in the daring sortie have re-
turned to Mexicali. Eleven others
have deserted and are now in the
jail established by the American
troops at Calexico. The remaining
34 of the band are believed to be
dead, as the federals took no prison-
ers.
That they escaped alive is due
only to the failure of the federals
to press their advantage and pursue
the routed insurrectog as they fled
in wild disorder from the field.
Colonel Miguel Mayot, the federal
commander, said today, when he
was visited at the Lee Little ranch
that his loss was 12 dead and 14
wounded,
Stricken Lad s Mother Nearly
lapses—All Callers Refused
Admittance.
The 0. C. U. will have four ball
games next week. Two with Weath-
erford college and two with Friends
College of Wichita.
Washington,—Confidential reports
received here from United States ar- j
my officials in Mexico assert that
President Diaz Is planning to escape
from his country.
The main reason on which the re-
port Is based is that Diaz has kept
only two regiments of troops at the
capital while all the others have
been scattered over the territory
through which the president's ave-
nue of escape would He.
When the aged ruler plar.3 to at-
tempt a flight from his country is
not stated but the growing discon-
tent in the country is gaid to be ap-1
p roach in* nearer and nearer to the The May Day Festival Benefit
capital where Diaz remains. The Entertainmtnt will be given at tTie
assignment of regimcuts seldom i Loeweu th ntre r n the evening of
toy pistol, a fourth of Ji
product, has added another victim)
its ever increasing list. Anot
home is made deaolate. Suffer!
for hours from the effects of|
gunshot wound received in play,
Alexander, jr., finally succumlj
to the shock, dying this morn
at 6:30 o'clock at the home of
parents, 1611 West Randolph.
The tragedy of the Fourth of jJ
weapon, postponed several mont
was re-enacted in the accident
succeeding death of this seven y^
old boy. Just a repetition of
oft-repeated story of two small b<j
and a gun. A costly object lesi
Boy Made Brave Fight
Kay made a brave fight aga
great odds. Last night, howevl
he suffered a relapse and his
was despaired of. The shock set |
and the boy slowly gave way to
effects. Every effort was made
relieve the sufferer. The bu
could not be located, however,
after several hours of examinatl|
the attempt was given up. Yeab
day evening he evidenced restle
ness, the change setting in about|
o'clock. A physician, in constant
tendance, noted the strong reactij
which caused the boy to sink gra
ually. After midnight very lit
hope was entertained for his re
ery.
The physician in charge made
following statement:
The Physician's Statement.
'Little Fay's condition after
injury up to about 6 o'clock We
nesday evening continued fairly <
except for occasional periods of
pression and restlessness, which
the rule after such injuries.
that time, however, his condit
grew gradually worse and In spi|
of stimulation he grew gra
weaker until the end. At no
after the first attempt to
the bullet did his condition wa
a further attempt to do so.
dren bear penetrating gun
wounds very badly, and it is prof
able that the fatal result was
tened by the impact of the
against the plexus of the nervi
Known as the solar plexus, whiq
lies in front of the spine and behii
the abdominal organs with all
which it is closely connected
nerve fibers.''
Shooting Was Accidental.
The shooting was purely aeddei
tal. in the evening of Tuesday laa
Bryan LIston, 13 years of age, ra
into the home of his aunt, Mrs. Co|
Davis, 1602 West Randolph,
agked for his toy pistol. At
time Fay and Bryan had been plaj
ing in the back yard of the Dav
liome. Mrs. Davis didn't know thl
Bryan had a pistol and told hil
that she did not know anythiif
about it. Looking about Bryan foun
it. He said he "wanted to play co^
boy."
Pistol a Flimsy Affair.
The gun which the boy took
to play with was a very small ti
pistol, having a barrel about t^f
inches in length. The pistol
purchased last Fourth of July
is a flimsy affair, similar to
toy pistols sold for that c aslon.|
After the play Bryan went in
the kitchen, followed by . ay, thouj
he did not know it. As i<e reachf
up to turn off the electr.* light,
some way he discharged lie
The bullet took effect n back I
his playmate. Bryan, < is gret|
ly affected by the lit ..in of
friend, has been unabh ive
explanation of the maim, r whif
the pistol was discharged.
Mrs. Davis Carried Fay Home,
Mrs. Davis rushed into the kitd
en and found Bryan still holding j
the light and the pistol on the flo
Not realizing the serious eharactj
of the wound Mrs. Davis took
lad in her arms and hurried o\j
to the Alexander home. At ttf
time it was not thought that
accident was a serious one.
Bryan lg disconsolate and
to eat or talk, and his mother |
disconsolate.
Dr. Scoville addressed the mln*
fsterial association on Wednesday
afternoon. The address was very
much appreciated.
Friends Will Not CalL
Friends of Mr. and Mrs.
der are requested not to call at
residence until after the fun
The condition of Mrs. Alexander <
mauds It.
Funeral services will be held
the Baptist church Saturday
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