The Calumet Chieftain. (Calumet, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, May 9, 1913 Page: 2 of 8
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CAllMT CHIffTAIN
CALUMET.
: Epitome of the
World's News
Little Stories of the Week's
Happenings in All Nations
FOREIGN.
Robert G. Fowler, the American
aviator, made a flight aero** the 1*
tbmus of l'anania iti a hydroaero-
plane with a passenger.
Austria is threatening immediate
war on Montenegro. unlesB Scutari is
evacuated at once. The other powers
have refused to join in the movement
A fire entailing a loss of at least
1600,000 swept the business section of
Gretna. Manitoba, and was prevented
from wiping out the residence district
by the dynamiting of four dwellings.
Earthquakes were felt in Northern
New York and Southern Canada. The
dome of the Ottawa Observatory col-
lapsed, damaging the apparatus $100,-
000.
Humors are coming from the Near
East, of friction between Greece. Ser-
via f#id Hulgarla, that may result in
actual war over the division of the
spoils of the Turkish conquest.
Election for president of Mexico
will be conducted October 26, by the
Hucrta government. The candidates
will be Felix Diaz. Gen. lluerta, de la
Harra, Gov. Oarranza of Coahuila and
Dr. Emilio Gomez.
Vllhjalmar Stefunuson. the Arctic
explorer, landed in New York off tin
steamer St. Paul to perfect plans foi
his four years' exploration of the fai
notth under the auspices cf the tana
dian government.
A packet of upwards of 500 lovt
letters of Robert and Elizabeth Bar J^^es
Hermann E Janssen. a Los Angelet
I aviator, was beheaded by the whirling
I propeller of a hydro-aeroplane.
Two "plain clothes" patrol women
! are walking beats in the dow-ntown
OKLAHOMA I district of Los Angeles at night begin-
I ning May 1.
Seven Pittsburgh physicians were
arrested in a raid by postoffice mspec
tors, charged with using the mail foi
fraudulent purposes. All furnished
bail of from *500 to *3,000.
Pliny Soper, well know-n lawyer and
political organizer and former Repub-
lican committeeman of Indian Terri-
tory, died at Kansas City following an
Illness of two weeks. Soper was 52
years old.
Another body was taken from the
Cincinnati mine of the Monoagahela
River Coal and Coke company at Fin-
leyvllle, Pennsylvania, bringing the
total dead to date 97, one of which was
a rescuer.
Six hundred carpenters in Houston
are on strike following the refusal of
the contractors to grant their demand
that union men be employed in the
construction of scaffolding and the
employment of a union foreman.
A strike Tote of the 100,000 conduc-
tors and trainmen on railroads in
eastern territory was ordered by the
men's representatives who have been
In conference with the railroad mana
gerB over demands for increased
wages.
Governor Ferris of Michigan signed
the bill placing state fraternal insur
ance societies under state regulation,
and the so-called "blue sky" bill
which aims to prevent the sale of
fraudulent stocks and securities. Both
bills were passed by the recent session
of the legislature.
The finding of the mutilated body
of 15-year-old "Mary Phagen In the
basement of the factory of the Na-
tional Pencil Co.. at Atlanta, has re-
sulted In the arrest of Leo M. Frank
superintendent; J. M. Gant. book
keeper, and Newtt Lee. the negro
night watchman, who found the body
Flood waters from the crevasse at
Gibson's Landing. Miss., contributed
t the death record when the steamer
Concordia struck th? iron railroad
bridge at Clayton. La., and sank,
drowning two white men and eleven
negroes. A negro boy also was fatally
injured. The steamer was engaged in
rescue work in Tensas and Concordia
ONLY FEW CHANGES
IN BIG ASSESSMENTS
traction companies and the oil and *"*Ua l«
illation at it* m-.-tin* laat w «k, man . „„
sorooratlons are concerned, " , ' iirlL ,,,,,,i.u11— •«'
of the assessments wer« ledu'id in |y
the average f«>r the entire number ' . ,u,,nh
I* to the Increase■ made on nevera * reU.rnli to
. un f«11111IMf mini! "li i ...i
In. id utld
( the
In assessing the traction companies an
ptate and •-tattj (• ard of ec|ualigation at lui
of taxation so far as these cor *
for the year 1912. A number o
with last year's figures, but the
•h^rs,rssrd«^ itlz zr.
th* state audit'r. although the street car liniis In m"ny
their average a H-5Bmtnt probably la lower than ITor i iI >• ' ■ , „f nle ua
The figures' as agreed upon by the state board, shows
aets-meiils for 1912 and 1913 as follows:
Traction Lines.
BartkMrrtIle'!Site'r"Rv° (100 per cent' 'increase over return)
Chickasha Street Hallway Co
Clinton Street Railway Co ■ ••••
Choctaw Rallwav and Light Co. 1100 per <ent. increase)...
I nid City Railway Co. <&<> per cent. iiwbjwi ■
Ft. Smith and Oklahoma I-lght and Traction Co
Guthrie Street Railway Co ■ ••••
Muskogee Klectrlc Traction Co (200 per cent. Increase)....
Okiahonft Citv Traction Co. «1CHJ per cent Increase)...
Oklahoma Railway Co. HO per cent, increase)
Oklahoma Electric Terminal Co. (10 per cent. Increase).
Oklahoma Union Traction Co
Oklahoma City Land and Development Co
O., K A- 3d Traction Co. (50 per cent. Increase)
Sand Spring Railway Co.
Shaw nee-Tecumseh Traction Co
Sapulpa Railway" Co
Tulsa Street Railway Co
Oil and Gas Companies.
Alliance Oil Co. <*10 per cent. Increase)
1912
:io,ir.o
131,411 •
60,000
1,200
4<>r , 174
100,000
no'.imo
345.111.1
ID.oiK)
2 r>oo,ooo
7r.4,7l6
44,117
12.47f>
:10,9I6
108,dtid
121, Ml
131.1.78
200,000
12,451
1,268,724
Caney River Gas Co. (190 per cent. Increase)
Cudahy R#fin:ng Co a'.'ooo
Chelsea Pipe l.ine Co. (100 per cent. Increase ia.vvv
•Consumers' '".as Co. (100 per cent. Increase)
Kanotex Refining Co
Kansas Natural Gas Co
•Kansas city Pipe Line Co
Marnett Mining Co
National Refining Co
21,000
250,000
120,700
185,412
3,:t4i,'.ii:i
980,532
56,308
600,000
800,000
. 3,832,189
, 609,239
, 120,483
. 5,566,165
1913
I 17,100
160,4*'
40,11110
4,600
404,6114
63,945
16,971
40,000
176,0*0
12,800
1,178,887
628,324
44,907
12, 178
42,750
145,163
100,000
100,000
260,000
20,414
1,485,841
36.067
21.574
119,024
23,817
176.815
459,132
925,439
125,000
105,412
3,623,447
1,005.318
88.532
600,000
1,054.1i'6
3,868,231
572.989
12". 4 s:t
6,566,165
SOCIALISTS OEFY
LI
COMMISSIONER SHOWERED WITH
EGGS AND OTHER MIS-
SELS RETIRES.
SUFFRAGETS SCORE A VICTORY
Girl Strike* Officer With Pennant
Staff; Prisoners Rescued By
Friends—Fear to Arrest
\he Women.
Nowata Pipe Line Co (100 per cent. Increase). ...
Oklahoma Natural Gas Co (150 per cent Increasei .
Osage and Oklat ma Gas Co. (600 per ccnt. Increase).
Petroleum Products Co
Portland Gas and Pipe Line Co
Quapaw- Gas Co. (100 per ccnt. increase)
Texas Co • ■;
■Wichita Natural Gas Co. <125 per cent. Increase)
Western States Portland Cement Co
Pioneer Telephone Co
•New company.
REAPPORTIONMENT NEWINSURANCE C0MM!SSI0NER
Bill ONCE MORE
LOWER BODY ADOPTS CONGRES-
SIONAL MEASURE AFTER A
HARD FIGHT.
rett Browning was bought at a Lundoi:
auction for $:!2,750 by a New York Six thousand men will receive an
dealer. The bidding started at $3.<KK increase of from 14 to 2 cents an
and rose rapidly by bids of *250 each hour in wages as a result of an agree-
ment between representatives of the
Ex-rebel troops und *r General Jose
Inei Salazar mutinied at Casai
Grandes, refusing to proceed in the
campaign against the constitutional
is s of Chihuahua state. Salazar with
his stalt ofllcerB is held prisoner by
his own men.
THIRTEEN DEMOS. OPPOSE TO LAST
Weaver and Thompson Are Placed In
the Fifth Division—One District
Is Republican—Other Legis-
lative News.
With the emergency lost and thir-
teen Democrats fighting the bill to the .
last ditch, the House of Representa- !
tives Wednesday passed finally an-1
various unions of shop craft and the other congressional redisricting bill,
Missouri Pacific and Chicago, Rock ; which was decided upon some days
Uland 4 Pacific railways. The men
also were granted a nine-hour day.
They have been working ten hours.
The trial of seven members of the
West Virginia legislature, one sen-
ator and six representatives, charged
with accepting bribes in connection
with the campaign of Wm. Seymour
Edwards for United States senator
last February is on in the Kanawha
county intermediate court at Charles-
Federal forces have evacuatec
Suarex, the most important port ol
the entry on the border and terminm
of the Mexican Central railway. Or
ders to hasten to Chihuahua, the stat«
capltol. were received by Colonel Vas
quez. the Juarez garrison commander ton Those under Indictment are
A bulletin Issued by the surgeons j Senator B. A. Smith and Delegates
tn attendance on the duchess of Con H K Ashbury, Geo. S. Vanmeter, T.
naught, wife of tho governor general J Smith, David E. Hill, S. U. G.
of Canada, who underwent an opera : Rhodes and Rath DufT.
Hon for Intestinal trouble on April 10 pennsyivania Is to test the mothers'
at London, states that intestinal o!> I pengjon sygtem. Governor Tener ap-
.tructlons have recurred and that an proyed tfae ac{ recently pagsed by the
other operation is necessary. legislature providing for county sys-
tems of pensions for mothers, under
DOMESTIC. tt,e administration of a commission of
Six Indians were placed tn the Las- from five to seven women to be named
sam county, Calif., Jail charged with t>y the governor for each county avail-
ago by the Democratic caucus. The
bill was immediately signed and sent
down to the Senate.
The bill provides for seven Demo-
cratic and one Republican district.
Childers Opposes Measure.
the shooting of two game wardens at
Tule Lake.
Refusing to pay 45 per cent duty
on $10,000 worth of gifts. Sir Wilfred
Peek, of Seaton, England, sent them
to the customs storeB while he con-
tinued on to St. Louis, where he is
to marry Miss Edwina Thornburg.
Louis W. Hill officially announced
that Carmi Thompson, formerly Uni
ted States treasurer, had been ap-
pointed general manager of the Great
Northern and Hill Ore properties in
Minnesota. After the expiration ol
the I'uited States Steel Corporation's
lease In 1914, it is said the Hill inter
eBts will embark extensively in the
mining business.
The Cripple Creek home of James
T. Bacon, a miner and former member
of the Colorado legislature, was blown
up with dynamite, killing Mrs. Bacon
and her 5-year-old daughter.
Twenty-three meff were trapped In
a fire tn Kansas City, Mo., last
week that destroyed the Helping
Hand annex, a mission boarding
house occupying an old four storj
house. Two are known to be dead.
Phiflip Forsythe and John Bond
members of the New York band ol
taxicab bandits ch rged with man}
holdups and convicted of one, wen
eentenced to imprisonment in Sins
Sing for a minimum of twenty years
The California State Senate passed
the anti-Jap allen land bill, over th«
objections cf William J Bryan, secre
tary of State. It is believed the housi
will also pass It and that Governor
Johnson will sign it.
ing itself of the provision of the law.
The trustees are to investigate all
cases and may recommend payments
to any abandoned mother or widow
who is unable tp maintain her chil-
dren at home. Payments are to be
made monthly and the combined max-
imum payment shall not exceed $12 a
month for one child. $20 a month for
two children, $25 a month for three
children and $5 a month for each addi-
tional child.
It Is said 4,300 carpenters In Pitts-
burg hae voted to strike May 1, un-
less they are granted 60 cents an hour
for an eight-hour work day with a
half holiday each Saturday. Formal
announcement of the vote taken by
the men will be given out later.
The flood waters from the Gibson's
Landing crevasse In the Louisiana
levees, twenty-five niles north of VI-
dalia. La., is spreading with destruc-
tive force over Concordia parish,
claiming town after town in its path
southward to the Red River. Hun-
dreds of homeless persons and thou-
sands of head of cattle are being
moved from the flooded district. Thus
far, however, the known loss of life
in this section is confined to two
negroes. Already more than five thou-
sand refugees have been taken from
the territory.
WASHINGTON.
In Kiowa people who have wells
snd cisterns have been tapping the
local water company's water mains
md filling up for the summer. The
company serves notice the practice
hai to stop.
A. L. WELCH,
Of Purcell, insurance commissioner of
Oklahoma. He was appointed to the
position last week by Governor Cruce
to fill the vacancy caused by the
, , _ ... resignation some time ago of Perry
Representative Ch:.ders of Garfield A Ba„ard> Mr Welch is vice presi.
county, made a noticeable speech in dent of- the p^cen Bank and Trust
opposition to the caucus bill. He said Company, and Democratic committee-
that it would disfranchise the Demo- man for McClain county. Mr. Welch
crats In the proposed sixth district, lg prominent in banking circles of the
which is a Republican district ana state and his appointment apparently
which had a Republican majority, ac- ■ has been met with the unanimous ap-
cording to the figures of the last elec- proval of insurance men of Oklahoma,
tlon, of 4,109 votes. He presented
one by one the Democratic votes and Stephens, 22,252; Jefferson, 17,430; Till-
Democratic districts and showed I man- 18'6i>0- Dlitr|Ct No. 8.
that there were more Democrats In Congressional District No. 8 shall be
r, ii. composed of the following counties:
the sixth or Republican district than: cimarron, 4.553. Texas, it.249; Beaver.
In any of the Democratic districts. 1 13.361; Harper. 8,189; Woodward. 16,592;
JL. , Kills. 15,375; Dewey. 14,132; Custer. 23,-
The number of Bemoeratic votes 2n. Roger jjiiis. 12,861; Beckham. 19,669;
polled at the last election in the pro-, Greer, 16,449; Harmon, 11,328; Jackson,
posed sixth or Republican district was -z-' ' —
^ jgg Capitol Bill Passes House
The roll call on the bill showed the | The two days' fight over the capitol
following results: Ayes 59 nays, 27, | appropriation bill ended with a pro
absent 12.
The roll call on.the emergency re-
sulted practically the same, the bill
lacking seven votes of the necessary
sixty-six.
The districts are as follows;
District No. 1.
Congressi- nal 1 'istrict N>' 1 shall be
composed 't the following counties;
Osage i", 101; Pawnee. 17,3:'.2; Tulsm. 34,-
995: Washington, 17.4SI; .Vi.vata, 11.223;
ll' lter* 17 736; <'raiif. 17,404; Mayes.
13 596 Ottawa, 15,713, Delaware, 11,469;.
Cherokee, 16,778; Adair. 10,535.
District No. 2.
Congressional DtstrU-t No. 2 shall be
composed of the f Mowing counties:
War ner 22,086. Okmulgee. .11,115; Mus-
k"gee 52,743; McIntosh, 2".961; Sequoyah,
25/jOS; Haskell, IS,875: Pittsburg. 47,650.
District No. 3.
Congressional District No. 3 shall he
composed of the following counties:
Latimer. 11.321; Leflore. 29.127: Coal,
15 sit Vt"ka. 13.4118; Pushmataha. 1",118;
Bryan. 29,864; Choctaw. 21.862. McCur-
tain, 2rt,68l; Carter, 25.358; Marshall. 11,-
619; Love, 10,236.
District No. 4.
Cnnt-'resslonai District No. 4 shall he
romp- shi '■( the following counties:
Creek. 26,233; Lincoln, 34,779: Okfuskee,
p 995 Pottawatomie. 43,595, Seminole,
19 'i64 Hughes, 24.01" Pontotoc, 24,331;
Johnston, i6,734; MurTay. 12,755.
District No. 5.
longed filibuster and much riotous but
good-natured confusion, with all sub-
stitutes and motions to refer to the
people killed, and with the final pass-
age of the appropriation bill by a Vote
of 55 to 23. The emergency lost by
the same vote, 66 being required to
pass it.
It became apparent in the middle
of the afternoon that Speaker Maxey,
assisted by Representatives Tehee,
H. H. Smith, E. P. Hill, Pinkham,
Mitchell and a few others, realizing
that their fight against the appropria-
tion could not win, were determined
to do all in their power to prevent the
bill coming to a vote. The "capitol"
forces countered with the determina-
tion to stay in the hall till midnight
or get a vote, and tho contending
forces see-sawed along through the
supper hour and until nearly 9 o'clock
before the filibusters had exhausted
all their resources.
The bill as passed carries approx-
imately $750,000 cash for tho immedi-
| ate beginning of work on a $1,500,000
capitol and provides a capitol commls-
London.—Wild scenes of disorder
occurred Sunday in the demonstration
ut Trafalgar sr^uare, under the aus-
pices of the free speech defense com-
mittee. The police tried to prevent
speeches from the Whitehall side of -r
tho plinth of the Nelson column >
and only the intervention of Jamea
Kelr Ilardie, socialist and independent
labor member of the house of com-
mons, who was chairman of the meet-
ing, prevented a serious riot.
As it was, the disorders, many timea
culminating in fist fights, continued
for almost two hours.
By the time the marching socialist.
labor and other organizations, with
bands playing the Marseillaise,
reached Trafalgar square, 20,000 per-
sons had gathered there and as many
more in the surrounding streets.
Permission to hold a meeting was
given at the last moment on the un-
derstanding that no suffragets should
be allowed to speak. Unable to se-
cure permission, to march as an organ-
ization, the supporters of the Wom-
en's Social and Political union
marched with the dockers, their colors
flying, preceded by a huge banner, in-
scribed;
"Where there's a will, there's a
way."
Flags of the Women's Social and
Political union were hoisted on the
plinth, from which they waved during
the meeting.
Speaking Causes Riot.
rouble began when a socialist start-
ed to address the crowd from the
Whitehall side of the column. The
promise had been given that no speak-
ing should take place on this side be-
cause of interference with traffic. A
husky police sergeant standing on the
plinth, hurled the speaker down on
the heads of tho crowd below.
The crowd then rushed the plinth
and endeavored to replace the speak-
er. It looked for a time as if their
efforts would prove successful, but
mounted police ruthlessly rode down
the rioters. James Kelr Hardie then
intervened and the socialist speaker
was allowed to regain his place.
In a moment a suffraget attempted
to climb the plinth. The police below
tried to.pull her back, but sympathiz-
ers on the platform succeeded in drag-
ging her up, after she had sacrificed
some clothes left in the hands of the
police.
In retaliation a policeman snatchei
a suffraget banner from a girl who
was waving it from the back o£
one of the Landzer lions. She struck
the policeman in the face and her
friends regained the banner, minu^-
the staff.
Police Commissioner "Egged."
The struggle angered the crowd and
the disorder became so general that
Commissioner Wells, commanding the
mounted police, ordered the White-
hall side cleared. The order was car-
ried out so roughly by the horsemen
that Commissioner Wells, noting the
temper of the crowd, retired in favor
of another commissioner. As he was
leaving. Wells was showered with
eggs and oranges and other missiles.
Fights between the police and the
people then became general, the chief
results of which were battered faces
and minor injuries. Several rioters
were arrested but the crowd sueuoeded
In rescuing most of the prisoners.
There was a large number of Isolated
sympathizers.
Mrs. Despard and other suffragets
spoke without interference, in spite of
the interdict. Any attempt to arrest
the women, in the temper of the as-
lemblage, probably would have result-J
Congressional l >ttsrlct No. 5 shall be g(on 0{ three men, to be appointed bv
composed of the following counties: I .... . , . . .,
Logan 31.740: Dkiahoma._i5.232; Cleve- ! the legislature, to let the construction
land, ii, .13. McClain, 15.639, Garvin, 26,- and architectural contracts and build
6i.i i.ra iy, ^ No g the capitol. Of the $750,000, approx-
Congressional' District No 6 shall be ' imately $250,000 comes from "dead"
composed _ of_ the following counties funds now in the state treasury,
1H 760*' Kay'.5*26.iW.''n''bis, '.M^'tS; Payne'. $95,000 from the game protection fund,
; :'.:35 Garfield. 33,050; Major, 15,348; approximately $155,000 donatpii by
Blaine. 17,960, Kingfisher. 18,Sld. Oklahoma City, and $250,000 appro-
District No. 7. *
Congressional District No. 7 shall b. pnated direct from the general rev-
eompi ed of the following counties enue funds of 1914-1915, to become
Canadian, 21,501. Caddo 35.685: Washita, availnblfl in 1915
26.134 Kiowa. 27,526; Comanche. 41,489; avauaoie tn tjio.
ed In a dangerous situation.
Addresses denouncing the govern*
ment's alleged interference with the
right of free speech were made by
several members of parliamnt, includ-
ing Mr. Hardie, Josiah Clement
Wedgewood and Joseph Martin, lib-
erals, and Robert Cuningham-Graham.
Scutari Evacuated.
Wiesbaden.—Emperor William re-
ceived a dispatch Sunday while at-
tending the opera that Scutari had
been evacuated by Montenegro.
Fatal Auto Accident.
Waco, Tex.—John A. Glenn, real
estate man, aged 49, native of Stewart
county, Georgia, was killed when the
brakes on a seven-passenger car did
not hold and the car turned turtle on
the tide of a steep grade.
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