Garfield County Democrat. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 11, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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TIKE CURE OF STATE DEBT
BRYAN'S FINANCE BILL ADOPTED
BY SENATE
2.54
JIM CROW MARRIAGE LAW
Bondt in Denominations of $500 at
Four Per Cent to Run From Ten to
Twenty Years are Provided For in
the Bill
The senate Tuesday recommended
for passage house bill 175 by Mr. Bry-
an authorizing and empowering the
state to fund Its outstanding legal
warrant indebtedness, and the Stett-
mund bill prodding for the refund
Ing of the 1907 state taxes, which
may have been collected after the
passage of the law by this legisla-
ture remitting the state tax for 1907
A bill by Sorrels creating a board
of mine examiners was discussed at
length and will probably be recom-
mended for passage.
The total warrant indebtedness of
the state Is $1,3S5,992.54, of which
amount Jl,228,252.54 was outstanding
prior to statehood, the difference be-
tween these amounts representing the
indebtedness Incurred by the legisla-
ture and state department under the
present administration. Bonds in de-
nominations of $500, each bearing
four per cent Interest, running 10 to
20 years are provided for. They are
to be paid In ten semi-annual install-
ments, the first becoming due the
eleventh year from the time of is-
sue. They are to be exempt from
taxation. Any person appropriating
to hlB use, or aiding and abetting In
the appropriation of any funds deriv-
ed from the bond sale, shall be guilty
of misdemeanor and fined double the
amount appropriated and Imprisoned
In the penitentiary not to exceed five
years.
The Stettmund bill provides for the
refunding of the state taxes for 19o7
that were paid prior to the enactment
of the law remitting those taxes. The
bill was passed by the home and
amended in the senate by the sub-
stitution of section 1 of a similar
bill by Senator Thomas.
The bill provides that the state
treasurer shall refund to county treas-
urers any monies received by him for
state taxes. That if any county has
already or may hereafter collect from
any person, firm, association, or any
corporation, all or any part of the
state tax assessed and levied for the
year 1907 the said person, firm, as-
sociation or corporation shall within
one year from the passage of this
act be entitled to file a claim against
the county collecting said tax or any
part thereof, whereupon said coun-
ty through its board of county com-
missioners shall allow such claim.
All taxes which shall become de-
linquent on the first Monday in April,
1908, shall be collected in a manner
provided by law and the county treas-
urers and sheriffs of the various
counties shall Immediately after said
date proceed in the manner provided
by law to collect the same.
An important feature of the Sor- I
rells bill Is a provision prohibiting J
the use of false scales at mines. On-
ly standard scales are permitted to
be used and the output of the mine
shall not pass over a screen until it
has been weighed and accounted for
at the legal rate as provided for by
law. Mine inspection semi-annually j
Is provided for.
The state mining board is to con-
sist of five members appointed by
the governor, two of whom shall be
old miners, one a practical hoisting
engineer and two coal operators, one
of whom shall be an expert mining
engineer. They shall serve for four
years and receive $5 i>er day for
their services.
The prohibition bill was not en-
grossed and sent to the house Tues-
day as v,as expected, but Is remain-
ing the property of the senate in or-
der that the friends of the measure
with the emergency attached may
have a chance to finally test the sen-
timent of the senate. Senator Bll-
lupa said that he has beeif assured
that there will be enough votes upon
reconsideration to pass the emergen-
cy section.
Tuesday's feature of the house ses-
sion was the discussion on the Dur-
ham bill regulating the fees and sal-
aries 6f clerks of district courts and
judges of the county • courts. An
amendment by McCalla providing that
clerks shall not succeed themselves
In ofTlce was passed In the morning
and reconsidered in the afternoon.
The length of tenure of office was
reduced, however, from four to two
years. A complicated discussion oc-
curred over the section stipulating re-
muneration. It was finally recom-
mitted with Instructions to amend
providing that clerks' salaries shall
not exceed $2,500, and the clerical
help provided by the county commis-
sioners shall be paid out of the fees
The house refused to recede from
Its amendment to the Franklin bill
amending the Franklin-Brooks case
transferring bill, and a conferencc
committee of three met a slmilat
number from the senate. The only
point over which the houses differed
was an amendment by Hobd.v chang-
ing the wording, and later the house
amendment was withdrawn
The committee substitute provid-
ing separate schools for the races was
recommitted. The Durant bill provid-
ing for appraisement of the school
land was adopted on roll call.
To preserve the dignity of the low-
er house of the legislature is the am-
bition of A. K. Vandeventor. repre-
sentative from Washington county,
who introduced and urged the adop-
tion of a resolution prohibiting one
of the most popular practices of the
body, eating pop corn. He would also
place smoking under the ban.
At the senate's request Skeen, Wil-
liams and Early were appointed a
conference committee on the commit-
tee substitute for bills conferring up-
on the supreme court Jurisdiction in
adjudicating the assets and liabilities
of divided counties. j lu uatatoes.
Senate Forbids Intermarriage and
Fixes Uniformity Law
Jim Crow sentiment was injected
Into a senate bill providing for the
uniformity of marriage Wednesday.
It came in the nature of a substitute
offered by Graham, author of the Jim
Crow law, and prohibits the Inter-
marriage of persons of the white and
negro races. The bill as recommend-
ed for passage is a consolidation of
SIX BILLS PUSS SENATE
ALSO AGREES TO THE
FUNDING BILL
NEW LIQUOR LAW SPRUNG BT BROWNLEE
CUTS PAY OF ASSISTANTS
State Senate Spends Nearly Whole
Day on Appropriations
In the senate Friday Secretary of
State CroBs exhibited the original
parchment manuscript of the state
constitution, the proclamation of the
president declaring the territories a
state, and the prohibition measure
upon which the people voted at the
first general election last fall. The
senate took a recess of 30 minutes
during which one by one the solons.
.... A_ uuiiii^ nuim uuc u uuc iuc ouiuua,
bills offered by Cordell and George D , Oklahoma Senator Proves He is For officers, employes and visitors filed
Johnson and B Graham. It provides, | Liquor Enforcement— B*I Similar I by in review before the historic doc-
that males under 18 and females un-
der 16 years are forbidden to marry |
without the consent of their parents
to Billups Measure With Dispensary
Feature Omitted
or guardians, and the legal age of ■ T'le senate in committee of the
consent Is fixed at 21 for males and *'hole Thursday passed the Echols
18 for females.
Hatchett's bill authorizing the
transfer of the Indian Territory cor-
poration records to the secretary of
state was recommended for adop-
tion, as was also the bill providing
for the refunding of the state war-
rant indebtedness. The senate vot-
ed down an amendment proposed by
Billups to strike out the section that
the refunding bond shall be exempt
from taxation on the ground that the
section Is unconstitutional.
The Sorrells bill providing for the
creation of a board of mining exam-
iners was recommended for passage.
A section prohibiting the employ-
ment of convict labor in coal and
other mineral mines other than stone
provoked a discussion on the general
principle of the employment of con-
vict labor, In which Senator Redwine
and George O. Johnson delivered
forceful speeches.
Redwine declares that the state is
paying exorbitant rates for its coal
and that should it operate its own
mine that it should be permitted to
employ convict labor if it so desires.
Johnson opposed the employment of
convict labor on the ground that con-
victs should be taught better occupa-
tions in order that they might make
better and more desirable citizens
upon being released.
A substitute to section 1 of the tax
refunding bill offered by Matthews
prevailed. It provides that applica-
tions for the refunding of state taxes
paid for 1907 shall be made to the
county treasurer direct, rather than
through the board of county commis-
sioners.
The Agee printing bill was dis-
cussed and further consideration
postponed until March 16. In the
meantime a special committee con-
sisting of Agee, Holman. Little, Staf-
ford and Brownlee, will make a fur-
ther investigation of printing con-
tracts awarded by the state printer
and all other matters pertaining to
state,printing.
A resolution was introduced by
Echols requesting the secretary of
the school land board to furnish the
senate with accurate Information ob-
tained from the records of his office
and his personal knowledge of condi-
tions as to the average rental per
quarter section and an estimate of
the tc'tal value of school lands, the
total amount of rentals received from
the lands and the per centum of les-
sees who reside upon the land.
Taylor's bills providing that rail-
road employes shall not work more
than 14 consecutive hours, and that
emergency surgical caBes shall be
kept on all freight and passenger
trains were recommended for adop-
tion.
The house advanced the Durham
hill regulating the offices of the dis-
trict clerk and county judge to third
reading. Heavy guns were employed
on the section which relates to sal-
aries. The substitute of Speaker
Murray, amended by O'Neal, finally
prevailing. This provides a maxi-
mum of $1,800 where the original
measure recommended $3,600 where
the population of the county did not
exceed 45,000. The county commis-
sioners and county judge are auth-
orized to provide for assistants to
be paid out of the residue of the fees
after the clerk's salary has been ex-
tracted. The assistants are limited
to two except as otherwise specified
by the commissioners. The salaries
are not to exceed $1,00 per annum
for the first deputy, $1,000 for the
second, and $800 for all others.
The disposition of the bill came
only after two days' controversy. The
measure will be voted on final pas-
sage unless the sentiment of repre-
sentatives of larger counties is rad-
j ically changed.
Chappell tried to get through an
amendment allowing the clerks in
I counties of over 30,000 population
$2,250, but it was tabler. McCalla
j then moved to postpone the bill in-
j definitely, but his motion was tabl
Ashby then gave notice that he
I would move a reconsideration.
On motion of Cope, the vote by
i which section 10 was adopted was
reconsidered. An amendment which
1 provided that clerks In counties of
j 25,000 or less shall be ex-officio
| clerks of the county court was ellm-
! inated. making the maximum 20,000
' as It was originally. Vandeventer's
I attempt to strike out the section
| was tables on the speaker's
and the section was adopted.
There has been no bill more stub-
bornly discussed during the session
! and it is by no means out of the
| woods.
The committee substitute for the
bill of Swengle, Faulkner, presenting
1 the spreading of Johnson grass and
I the Russian thistle, was passed to
third reading.
At the morning session a rule was
adopted limiting speakers to ten
minutes.
George Sulllnger, of Missouri ad-
dressed the house. His prediction
of Iryan's election was enthusiastic-
ally received. The house adjourned
during the consideration of the Ma-
ntis bill providing for teachers' certi-
ficates.
bill repealing the Oklahoma laws
requiring the inspection of oil. This
was done after Senator Echols and
others expressed the belief that the
present oil inspection law works to
the advantage of the Standard Oil
company.
The senate passed finally six sen-
ate bills. No. 65, by Cordell-Johnson-
Oraham. regulating marriages; No.
53, by Taylor, limiting hours of em-
ployment of trainmen to fourteen
hours; No. 254, by Hatcbett, trans-
ferring records of Indian Territory
umentg.
The steel cast box which was made
for the safe keeping of the constitu-
tion was exhibited to the secretary of
state today, and the document was ex-
hibited publicly for the last time be-
fore being deposited .in the box and
securely locked.
Nearly the entire day was spent in
discussing the general appropriation
bill which the senate committee on
appropriations recommended with
amendments. An effort was made by
Roddie to reduce the salaries of two
assistants to the secretary of state
from $1,500 to $1,200, but the effort
failed.
An amendment by Hatchett reduc-
ing the salaries of the assistant at-
r?„rr10=atl^ns fr0.^ th^suPr,eme court forney general from $3,000 to $2,500
clerk s office to the office of secretary
of state; No. 220, by Henry S. John-
son. to avoid the necessity of terri-
torial cases appealed to the supreme
court, going into the federal ctArts.
The senate also agreed to the house
amendments of the bill funding the
state bill, and the bill as ordered en-
rolled and sent to the governor.
The house passed the Redwine bill
regulating mining and it was sent
to the senate for concurrence. The
bill also passed the Johnson grass
bill on final passage.
Resenting charges that he is op-
posed to prohibition enforcement as
provided in the Billups liquor bill,
Senator Brownlee of the minority, in-
troduced a new liquor bill containing
the enforcement charges of the Bil-
lups bill but omitting the dispensary
features. T4ie democratic senators
who voted against the emergency
too* like action by introducing an
enforcement bill, also a copy of the
Billups enforcement provisions
they passed the senate. As another
move to embarrass the Billups bill,
Senator Davis' liquor enforcement
bill was referred to the judiciary
committee.
"The object of the senators who
voted down the emergency of the Bil-
lups bill introducing these bills is to
refute charges made by Rev. E. C.
Dinwiddle that Senator Brownlee and
others, who defeated the emergency,
are -opposed to the liquor enforce-
ment features and favor the dispen-
sary features'," said Senator Davis.
"The reverse is true and by backing
the bills we will bear out the rec-
ords in showing that we were for the
liquor enforcement features but stood
all along for referring the dispensary
features to a vote of the people."
The general appropriation bill
which the house has approved was
reported from the senate committee
and discussed at some length in com-
mittee of the whole. The appropria-
tion committee had amended the bill
so as to provide a salary of $1,200 per
year for the secretary to the lieu-
tenant goyernor. That part of the
section creating the office of secre-
tary and fixing the salary was strick-
en out by the senate. An attack was
made on the next head which relates
to the expenses of the secretary of
state's office. Some amendments
were offered, but a motion prevailed
that further consideration of the bill
be postponed until a statement could
be procured from the secretary of
state.
The Early bill relating to municipal
improvement was advanced to third
reading, but later recommitted for
changes.
A report of the conference wnich
alters the Bryan refunding bill sub-
stituting the word felony for the word
misdemeanor in the section provid-
ing penalties and changing the phrase-
ology of the emergency clause was
adopted.
prevailed after a long discussion.
Hatchett was supported in his argu-
ment by Mathews, Russell and oth-
ers. Stafford, chairman of the appro-
priation committee, assisted by Red-
wine, Eggerman, Taylor and others,
made a fight to have the item remain
as reported. Notice was given that
an amendment would be offered on
the floor of the senate during the
third reading of the bill to have the
original amount, reinstated.
The salary of the assistant insur-
ance commissioner was reduced from
$1,800 to $1,500- When the corpora-
tion commission department war
reached, further consideration of the
bill was postponed.
When the house bill prohibiting the
spreading of Johnson grass reached
the senate, president pro tempore
Johnston added his name and those
of Senators W. H. Johnson and
George 0. Johnson and Robert M.
Johnson, of the house, to the bill as
authors.
Senator Little called attention to
the fact that an elecl'.on is approach-
ing and requested that all election
bills submitted be reported from the
committee as early as possible.
Chairman Davis of the committee to
whom was referred these bills, asked
that they would be reported as soon
as possible.
The Sorrells bill regulating min-
ing. creating a state examining board
and inspection district examining
board and a weighman, and making
mine inspectors ex-officio scale in-
spectors at coal mines, was adopted
on roll call with the emergency. An
amendment by Williams to strike out
the section prohibiting convict labor
in the mines was defeated.
The Echols bill repealing the law
providing for an oil inspector was
passed with the emergency.
Mathews called up the Blair motion
to reconsider the vote by which the
emergency section of the prohibition
bill was defeated, but withdrew it in
order that the senate might adjourn.
MURRAY AFTER RETURNS
Speaker of House With Assistants
Go to Cherokee
Speaker W. H. Murray, of the house
left Friday for Cherokee, accompa-
nied by seven assistant sergeants-at-
arms and armed with a warrant for
the arrest of H. L. Kincheloe, clerk
of Alfalfa county, custodian of the
election returns, which he has refus-
ed to release to the sub-committee of
the house committee on privileges
and elections for the purpose of mak-
ing a recount to determine the result
of the Murley-Allen Contest in Al-
falfa county.
The speaker is authorized by a res-
olution of the. house to secure as
many deputies an he considers nec-
essary to carry out his plans. Hp is
further authorized to arrest Kinche-
I he bill by Lindsay, Swengle and joe an(j bring him to 'the capital,
Faulkner prohibiting the spread of
Johnson grass and Russian thistle
was adopted cn roll call.
A<ftcr a discussion, the Murdock
bill authorizing cities and villages
to build sidewalks by special assess-
ment was recommitted, there being
objections from a number of mem-
bers from the east side of the state,
the majority of whom have now not
the same municipal government as
the towns of old Oklahoma.
On the ground that the practition-
ers of chlropractics object to having
representation on the state medical
board, Vandeventer attempted to
have the Early bill providing for a
state chiropractic board recalled and
discussed, but his motion was de-
feated.
The house refused to concur in the
senate amendments to the Stettmund
bill which carries into effect the tax
tefunding measure. Stettmund,
Reeves, Japp were named members
motion | Qf conference committee on the
bill.
The Vandaveer bill permitting title
to real estate where records have
been destroyed was recommitted.
Sulphur Wants Carnegie Library
SULPHUR: An attempt will be
made by the citizens of Sulphur to
secure a Carnegie library (for this
place. A petition has been drawn and
will be presented to the steel mag-
nate.
INJURED BY EXPLOSION
Pottawatomie's Potato Crop
SHAWNEE' More tha:. 30 curloads
of seed potatoes have been sold 4u
Pottawatomie county points this sea
son, according to commission men of
Shawnee. An extra good crop Is
promised. S. D. Neal, a farmer living
near Shawnee, will plant 100 acres I place.
Children Find Dynamite Cap on Road
and Strike It
DOUGHERTY: Exploding with ter-
rific force when hit with a stick, a
dynamite cap, found by several chil-
dren while playing by the roadside,
horribly lacerated the face and handa
of Eugene Barrett, little son of R. k.
Barrett. The caps had been thrown
carelessly by the road and the chil-
dren had been playing with them
some time before the explosion took
The boy was taken home. It
1 Is thought that he will recover.
where he must show before the bar
of the house sufficient reasons why
he should not be fined or even jailed
for contempt.
Discussion of the action of the
county clerk of Alfalfa county and
the action the house should take oc-
cupied almost the entire session Fri-
day. It authorized Speaker Murray
to go after the ballot boxes with as
many sergeantns-at-arms and assist-
ants as he wanted, with only two dis-
senting votes.
The sub-committee of four, desig-
nated by the committee on privileges
and elections to conduct a recount of
the ballot in Alfalfa county, returned
to Guthrie, and Skeen, one of the
committee, gave a resume of their
experiences.
The county clerk, H. L. Kincheloe,
who refused to turn the ballot over to
the committee, did not decide on a
definite plan of action until 2 o'clock
in the morning, when he announced
that he would not release the returns.
As the ballots are locked In a vault
of the First National Bank of Chero-
kee, the county seat of Alfalfa Coun-
ty, the committee returned without
them.
An Injunction, issued by a probate
judge, was served on the members
seeking to prevent further action. No
attention was paid to the writ.
The bill of Senator Taylor treating
the relations between corporations
and their employes was subjected to
numerous attacks. Murdock objected
to the provision requiring that the
seal of the company be attached to
the discharge papers given to any em-
ploye on the ground that agents might
not be able to secure the seal and con-
sequently would be held as violating
the law should they fall to observe
the formula laid down In the bill.
The speaker signed the enrolled
copy of the Bryan bill for funding
the outstanding Indebtedness of the
state.
ONE
HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
HELPLESS PUPILS DIE
TRAMPLE UPON EACH OTHER IN MID RUSH
Doors Open Only Inward and Children
Crowding Against Them Made Exit
impossible—Parents See Children
Die in Flames.
CLEVELAND, O.: Penned in nar-
row hallways, jammed up against
doors that opened only inward, 170
children in the suburb of North Col-
linwood Wednesday were killed by
fire, by smoke and beneath the grind-
ing heels of their panic stricken play-
mates.
The awful tragedy occurred in the
public school of North Collinwood.
ten miles east of this city.
By night 165 corpses were in the
morgue at Collinwood, six children
were still unaccounted for and all the
hospitals and houses for two miles
around contained numbers of chil-
dren some fatally and many less se- I '"u?, UI "*« w
rioix lured dead by the time the doors w
All of the victims were between the onf*np''
ages of 6 and 15 years.
contained between 310 and
! of them. Miss Weller attempted to
j stem the rush, but went down under
I it, and her body was found an hour
later piled high with those of her
pupils.
Miss Fisk, another teacher, was
taken out alive, but she can not live.
The gruesome task of taking out
the blackened torsoes and bits ot
human remains was one of horror. A
line of rescuers was formed, backed
by half a dozen ambulances. As the
bodies were untangled irom the de-
bris they wtre passed along to the
stretchers and thence loaded into the
ambulances. Mercifully covereff
with blankets, the pitiful sights were
veiled from the crowd of curious that
stretched about the entrance to the
structure. As fast as a load was ob-
tained It was driven away to the Im-
provised morgue.
The school was a two story and
attic brick building, constructed
about six years ago. It was over-
crowded with pupils, and It was
found necessary to utilize the attic
for those of the ages between six and
eight. Nearly all the children were
killed in the mass at the first floor
door, which finally was opened by
men from the Lake Shore railway
shops, who hurried to the scene.
A wall of flames had formed
across and most of the children were
ere
opened.
The sohnni I At the temporary morgue in the
Lake Shore shop the scenes became
jer 'onlv ; four fold in the intensity of human
about 80 are known to have left the fs, father8' fathers broth-
building unhurt. It will be several u,P.._a?_d_Jdow°
days before the exact number of the i
killed Is known, as the ruins may
still contain other bodies and tihe i , . ...
Ko. f f . n i „ v i tney were received at the
list of fatalities may be increased ^
by a number of deaths among the
children who are now lying in the
hospitals hovering between life and
death.
There was but one fire escape and
that was in the rear of the building.
There were two stairways, one lead-
ing to a door in front and the other
to a door In the rear.
Both of these doors opened inward
and it is claimed the rear door was
locked as well.
When the flames were discovered
the teachers throughout seem to have
acted with courage and self-posses-
sion and to have struggled heroical-
ly for the safety of their pupils and
marshalled the little ones into col-
umn for the "fire drill" which they
had often practiced.
Unfortunately the line of march in
this exercise had always led to the
front door, and the children had not
been trained to seek any other exit.
The fire came from a furnace sit-
uated directly under this part of the
building. When the children reach-
ed the foot of the stairs they found
the flames close upon them, and so
swift a rush was made for the door
that in an instant a tightly packed
mass of children was piled up against
it. From that second none of those
who were upon any portion of the
first flight of stairs had a chance for
their lives. The children at the foot
of the stairs attempted to fight their
way back to the floor above while
those who were coming down shoved
them mercilessly back into the flames
below. In an instant there was a
frightful panic with 300 of the pupils
fighting for their lives. Most of
those who were killed died here. The
greater part of those who escaped
managed to turn back and reached
tne fire escape and the windows in
the rear.
What happened at the foot of that
first flight of stairs will never be
known, for all of those who were
caught in the full flurry of the pan-
ic were killed. After the flames had
died away, however, huge heaps of
little bodies, burned by the fire and
trampled into things of horror told
the tale as well as anybody need to
know it.
Miss Catherine Weller. one of the
nine teachers in the school, lost her
life in a vain effort to marshal the
pupils of her class and lead them to
safety. She died in the crush at the
rear door. Her room was on the sec-
ond floor and when the fire alarm
sounded she marched her pupils out
into the hall, thinking it was only a J
fire drill. There the truth dawned j
upon both teacher and pupils, and
control was lost.
The children in their frenzy plung- |
ed into the struggling mass ahead ;
the lines formed of one hundred and
sixty corpses. To facilitate identifi-
cation the bodies were numbered as
morgue.
great majority of the little
bodies that were taken from the
ruins were burned beyond all possi-
ble recognition. And it is no small
part of the sorrow which is bearing
down the people of North Collinn-
wood that positive identification of
many of the children will never be
made.
Miss Ethel Rose, a teacher on the
first floor of the building, whose pu-
pils were the youngest In the
school, managed to get all but three
of her charges out of the building if.
safety. Two of the smaller ones she
carried in her arms.
Miss Anna Moran, principal of the
school, and two of the teachers, Miss
Gollmer and Miss Rowley, escaped
by one of the windows In the rear.
They remained with the panic-strick-
en children until they could do no
more for them and then sought their
own safety.
Miss Laura Bodey, the only teach-
er on the third floor, formed her pu-
pils in line and marched them down
to the second floor, where, finding
the flames rushing up the stairway,
she turned them around and hurried
them back again to the third floor.
She here broke a window with a
chair and getting onto the platform
of the fire escape lifted out her pu-
pils one by one and sent them down
Four or five children who broke
from the line and ran down the
stairway were killed.
CLEVELAND, O.: Twenty-four
hours after the disaster which caused
the death of approximately one-third
of the school children of North Col-
linwood,' the death roll numbered 164.
Of these 137 had been identified at
the Lake Shore morgue, while 27
bodies remain there in a condition ot
mutilation, probably forever beyond
recognition. The work of digging into
the ruins of the Lakeview school
house in further search for remnants
of children still missing, began with
the break of day. Dawn found moth-
ers and fathers waiting about the
ruined building after having spent the
night in an effort to find their chil-
dren's remains in the extemporized
morgue. Little was brought forth
during the day that would satisfy
their longings and it Is believed that
all the bodies that can be removed
from the ruins have been taken out.
The work of removing the Identi-
fied bodies to their former homes has
been completed and the undertakers
set to work to prepare for the inter-
ments.
Should any parent desire to under-
take the interment of one of the un-
and bones, believing it may be his
child, he will be permitted to do so.
The remainder of the bodies will be
laid side by side in the cemetery.
FIRE DRILL PERFECT
School Houuse Emptied in Two and
One-Half Minutes
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.: Grand
Rapids was threatened with a repe-
tition of Cleveland's tragedy on an
even larger scale. Fire broke out in
the laboratory of the Central high
school while 1,200 pupils were at their
studies- The fire signal was given
and the pupils marched out in per-
fect order. The building was emptied
in two and one-half minutes.
The Central high school is over-
crowded and the stairways inade-
quate, but the fire drill proved ef-
fective.
That there was no panic in the
school was probably due to the fact
that a professional photographer had
been taking flashlight pictures in the
corridor of the high school a few
r-.lnutes before the fire broke out ant
the children had been warned not to
alarmed. When the firemen came
and the drill began, they thought
therefore that Jt was foir another
picture and all marched out quietly.
The photographer was In the school
which was Intended for 800 pupils,
for the purpose of securing pictures
showing Us overcrowded conditions.
These photographs are to be used in
furthering a campilgn already inau-
gurated by the board of education
for a new and larger high school.
LAWTON^ "Not guilty" was the
decision reached by the jury having
under consideration the case of S. A.
Hambleton, charged with criminal
assault upon Edith Hunt, the 10-year
old daughter of a neighbor of Ham-
bleton. "Reasonable doubt" Is the
reason given for the finding of not
guilty. This is the second Jury which
has considered the same case during
the present term of the district
court. The first failed to reach a de-
cision.
MAIL ORDER BANKS
Senator Owen Receives Suggestions
Regarding Oklahoma's Law
WASHINGTON: Mail order banks
for Oklahoma is the latest suggestion.
It comes from C. S. Anderson, a sash
and door manufacturer of Chicago.
In a letter to Senator Owen, received
the other day, Mr. Anderson says:
"Why don't the Oklahoma bankers
take advantage of their opportunity
and go after the 'mail order' deposits
of the country which are now kept in
socks under the mattresses. They
have a state law guaranteeing depos-
its. This fact Is known to the people
all over the country. The display of
a little enterprise oil the part of Ok-
luhoma bankers will enable them to
rake in deposits from every section
of the country through the mails.
They could put the mall order banks
of other states out of business In
short order if they would go after
that class of business."
This was a novel idea to Senator
Owen, and it is giving him something
to think about during his spare mo-
ments. The theory of Mr. Anderson
is that the people who are now afraid
of the banks will send their money to
Oklahoma banks because their de-
posits, will be insured by the state.
"All Right With Mamma."
Tt'LSA: Claiming that she loved
her Indian fiancee and would marry
him somewhere, If not In Tulsa,
Ethel McGlnnls, White, 16 years old.
tried to get Judge Gubser to grant
Claude Cardlnas, a copper-hued giant
23 years old, and herself a permit
to wed. "It will be all right with
mamma," said the girl when told she
was too young. "She knows I'm with
Claude and that we Intend to mar-
ry. She says It's all right." The
couple were told to get the mother's
consent lu writing uud return for
the license.
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