THE INOLA REGISTER.
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VOL. 3
-;M , a  ,I.amma. THURSDAY DKC'KMBKK 24. HH*. NO.  
.H. UK. "    "Vat#" ^ TIE SBTIETI C0I6BESS
Newt From All Over The State
Body ef Unknown round.
The mangled body ot sa ""J1"0"?
inwt wa* found by the Bsnta *•
narly Thur.«Jt y morning st Ohia
houia City. HIS found*   <! "to1"'
Ing showed he ***   working  w>.
AcddonUI Dlsehsrgs.
The accldsolal of   S«a
In a wagon caused the"  ath ofWIl
Ham It. latham. a herdware elerk of
due who Imd !>« «« hunting. TBS
SSy' waaVnlto Bodgwlch, Kansas,
for burial.   
Hotel M.n's Mootlno.
Th eitnitual meeting of the 0*1*
home Stale Hotel Mon'. aeeocla*
tlon will be held Hi Clinton on
January 12, at which time  iveral
matter. of Importance will be con
•Idered.
A New Pre.ld.nt. ,
The truntee* of the Kingfisher col-
logo hav« elected J. H. },u,"r' }? '
of Ixiridon. Conn., president of the
college for the n«xt year. Hs * "
arrive to take char** of the college
within the next week.
Found^ Guilty.^ ruKhu.r „f the First
State bunk of Oklahoma City, wm
found guilty by a Jury In the d *•
trlct court at El Reno of embsssle*
ment. and sentenced to one year in
the penltentlury, besides a Hue of
|3,48C.02.    
County «8at Fight.
Alfalfa county la at I""08"11 I**?"
Ing a county seat tight with tho prob-
abilities of Chorokee. IngerBoU. tar-
men and Jot being tho conteatanU.
There haa not been tho least a gi>
of blttr hostilities and the campaign
la very quiet and orderly,
Te\Vlth the arrival In Oklahoma City
of A. W. Cornish, representing the
Selden-Breck company, contractors,
of St. IxjuIs. primary work on the
construction of the big ten-story jiotel
replacing the Lee-Hucklns,
burned several months ago,
gun.
N Dlrector-s^of the Oklahoma State
Fair association met at
City Thursday and chose the follow
ing officers for the next year: H
Overholtzer. president; P. M. Jor
dona, vice-president; J. S- Mahan,
secretary; S. C. Hcyman, treasurer.
To Inspect Road.
Superintendent Dick of the state
penitentiary at McAlester, will go
to Blaine county where he will in-
spect the government road being
built near Watonga with a vlew of
making this a model of construction
for his work of constructing state
highways with Oklahoma convicts.
Pestsffiss Robbed.
The uoslolflM at Noble  ss rob-
bed of $300 and 130 In stemps. !©•
Np«ruir« sre her# Irom oklahoma
Cliy attempting u  got w . trace of
the criminal*.
Ts Cslobrsto.
Preparation* sre being mado by
the local republican club si Chicks'
aha lo celebrate tne anniversary of
l.lncoln's birthday. A committee has
been appointed to srrsugo the <wls-
bratlon.
Hs Oct Fsrdon.
A eltlsmshlp pardon wss lasued
by Oovsrnor Haskell to John Boyd*
ton, convicted In Bryan county of
aaaault with Intent to kill, and «sa-
fenced last January to Imprlaoament
for a year and a day.
To Prsetlco Law.
Ho** Ullard. charter clerk In the
Hocrotary of atate'* office. haa re-
alined hit position to tuko up tho
practice of luw at Oklahoma City.
Ill* *ucce**or ba* not yet been ap-
pointed.
Stole Three Slxahootors.
Smashing a heavy plate front In
I,yon A Matthew's hardware *tore at
Hobart, burglar* stole three six-
shooter* from tho display window and
escaped without leaving a clue.
Remit First of Month.
In reply to an Inquiry from State
Treasurer Menefee, Assistant Attor-
ney (ieneral Spllman holds that un-
der the law county treasurers should
remit to tho state treasurer any
extra funds In their bandB on the
tlrst of i-ach month.
Mucaftf
32
Assets Psoitis* * "
•tsts Undsr Mr. Taft,
Augusts. Oa-President elect Taft
Friday sight anaoumed the spMsl-
ment of United Htstes Heustor PhU-
| and«r C. Kno* of Pennsylvania, ss
•«4 reiary uf siste In his cabinet.
The announcement followed the re-
! eelpi by Mr Taft of s telegram coo-
lve>ing the information irom Mr. Kno*
| that bs would accept the premiership
(of tb  Taft cabinet
■| f «| ihat | em to t* Ot ngl*t *
luted la securing th® .ervlce of Ben-
|aior Kno* in my cabinet." said Mr.
laft In making ihe announcement
In aelectlng s secretary of atate I
wanted Ural a grest lawyer, snd sso-
I und. s msn who would All the publlo
| ejro. not only here but sbrosd. ss a
i man who atsnda out preeminent!*
i a* a great American.
I "Mr Kno* was a grest sttorney
general; be wss s prominent csndl
date for the presidency, snd bs Is
rwcogniied In the aenato and elsa>
I * In-re s* one of the grest lawyers
if thst body." f
A STRIKE IN KANSAS.
which
is be'
A MILLION A DAY FOR SU6AR
Ten Cent* Per 100 Pound*.
The corporation commission
has
issued an amended order governing
the charges of compresses which
provides that the entire charge of
the compress, covering weighing,
handling and compressing, shall be
not to exceed 10 cents per
pounds.  
100
It Won't ttpsak.
INTERESTING FIGURES BY BU-
REAU OF STATISTICS.
OFFICERS SHOT IN A JAIL.
On*
Man Killed and tho Marahal
Wounded by a Prisonor.
Cain,
ahot and probably with tho ".lldlng acale." but demand,
ed and Elmer Ma * Increa.e of 25 per cent In wagea.
Average American Citlxen Consumes
82.6 Pound* Every Year—More
Beet Than Cans Sugar.
Washington.—Figures gathered by
tho bureau of statistics show that tho
average American cltlxen consumes
half his crtvn weight In sugar every
year and Uncle Sam's sugar bill aver-
ages $1,000,000 a day. The total con-
sumption of sugar In the United State*
In 1907, as shown by a report Issued
by the bureau which l< the l^st year
for which statistics sre available,
rcached 7,089,607,975 pounds.
"Calculating this enormous total at
the average retail price of 5^ cents
per pound," the report states, "we
get a total of *572,000,000 as its cost
to the consumer, or more than $1,000.-
Held Mass Meeting.
At Broken Arrow, in the east end
of Tulsa county, violation ot tne
prohibition law had become so flag-
rant that a mass meeting of indig-
nant citizens was held at which a
committee was delegated to notify
all join lists that the liquor traffic
must cease at once. A dozen joints
have been running wide open.
Leaves for Virginia.
Dr. A. S. Riddle of Chickasha, who
was a member of the first state leg-
mature and a candidate for warden
of the Oklahoma penitentiary, has
accepted the agency of the state of
Virginia for the Jacobs Cigar Vender
company, and will leave in a few
days to begin his new work. The
doctor announces that his absence
trom Chickasha will only be tem-
porary, and that he will still main-
tain his residence there.
For Large Packing Plant.
r w Wells of St. Louis, said to
represent a large packing house con-
cern, has made the Commercial club
nf Tulsa an offer to establish the
largest padUng house In the state
providing the city take stock to tlit
amount of $100,000 in the concern.
The offer has met with favor and
an effort will be made to meet the
conditions.  
*^The°0Bartlesville city council has
let contracts for street paving to the
value of $224,000. This Is said to
h« the largest paving order ever gtv-
Sn by an Oklahoma city. The pav-
me is to be laid on all the business
and a large number of the residence
afreets Including forty block, in a
new addition southeast of the city.
604.000 Bale, of Cotton.
Memphis, Tenn.—In a statement
Issued Friday the National dinners'
association estimates the amount of
cotton ginned to December 18 at 11.-
672,000 bales. This includes Arkan-
sas, 843,000: Missouri 50,000; Okla-
homa, 604,000.
Wage. Increased
The street car company of Oklaho-
ma City today announced an Increase
in wages to its employes. The new
scale will bo 18, 20 and 22 cents an
hour. The old one was 17. 18 1-2
and 20 cents. About 130 men are af-
fected.
A New Bank.
Bank Commissioner Smock has au-
thorized the First State Bank of Tem-
ple to commence 'business with $10,-
000 capital. It is a conversion of the
First National bank of Temple. E. E.
Evans, vice president, and E. O. Ter-
ry, cashier.
Chargtd With Grave Robbing.
J. W. Curtis, W. R. Masser and J
T. McMurarey were arrested near l "u' j™.' """cent" or 4,367,000,000
Tuskahoma charged with disturbing maining oi per ceui ui ,
tht body of Jane Anderson, a dectastd : came from foreign countries. tort>-
Indian. It is supposed that $6,000 Is three million pounds was the aggre-
'burled near ihe grave. However, gate of the exportation of sugar from
nothing was found. j this country.
The United States sugar record for
Oklahoma Postmasters.
Washington. D. C.—The following
postmasters have been appointed in
Oklahoma since the last report;
Connerville, Johnston county, John
H. Simerly. u
Dora, Seminole county, John H.
Jupin.
Illgboe, Missouri—Frank
city marshal, was
dangerously wounded
gruuer was Instantly killed at ten
o'clock Friday night in the city hall
by three men whom Cain had arrest-
ed for robbing a railway station In
Salisbury. The three men. who gave
their names as Fred Anderson and
Jame* and Bud Urener and Des
Moines, la., as their home, were ar-
rested while eating supper at a res-
taurant. Two revolvers were found
upon them. _ steel
Pl.nt. In Kan... M.y Suspend Rsthsr
Than Incrs.M Wagea
Independence, Kanaa*.—Twenty-
five gla*  worker* of thl* city left
at midnight Wedn«*day for Fredonla
to take place, with tho Fredonla Olaa.
company. It I. .aid that the Oaa«e
window gla*. homo here will clo.o
at midnight Saturday night, unlea. tho
new .rale, which not only doe. sway
TNI LABORS OP TM« SHOUT MS
•ION MAVB BEGUN.
Chrsnlsls sf ths Msst ImMrtasI
Hsppenmgs in Bolb Houses
During Psit Wssb.
Hswss Asks fsr IVidence.
Ws.blnsion—The house Thursday
by unaaluwu* vuie sdopted 4 resolu-
tion requesting lh* president to .up
ply It with sny evidence thai may bo
ia bis poe.e.*iu« ihst will Justify tko
statement In hla last annual mesasss
In relation to tbs aiiliude of member,
of congress toward appropriation fsr
the government Vecret *«rvlee.
Mr. Perklne. chairman of the apo-
dal committee charged to Investigate
the allegation* made In the president's
menage snd John Sharp VV llllams
both statsd on ths fluor ihst It wss
the deal re of the *peclal commutes lo
be Juat toward the president In allow-
Ing him to submit any evidence be
may bsvs snd both declared that tho
committee would give It full and Im-
partial conalderatlon. Mr. Perkins
Mid ths committee would continue In
aesalon during the Cbrl.tmaa holidays
ao that It might receive snd conaldsr
■uch evidence from the president.
A Remsrkabls Statement.
Waablngton.—"If you protect our
competitor you leave ua above pro-
tection and I believe that the United
State, atcel corporation ahould maks
public Ua affairs and submit to gov-
ernment control," waa the remarkable
declaration of Judge K. H. Oary;
chairman of the board of directors of
the United States steel corporation at
the hearing before tho houae ways
and meana committee Friday.
Will Furnish the Evidence.
Washington.—President Roosevelt
la adopted.
The plants at Caney and Coffeyvllle
will also be clo«*d. It la understood.
the manufacturers saying they cannot „mauw9^.   ...
make ends meet without the sliding begun preparing for submit
evl-
scale. On a flat rate, the trust can congress a mass of
figure Its profits to a cent and cut u >n{e uj}Qn wh,ch he bMed lhe state-
their rates with the machines, pey a.-; menl> ,n hjB annl,ai message regard-
sert. ' tng the secret Bervlce. The amount
IJlowors now are making rrom |ju of wQrk nece88ary to pat this evidence
trf $100 for four weeks' work; gather- Jn ghape f()r prcgentaiion to congreM
  '"v " ~ •   . in rSIIil J>" IUI VWVU   
After locking them in the steel ; era, from $60 to $65 and cuttersln Jg ^ greal that ,t wl„ nol be ready
ceHs In the city hall Cain was not j the neighborhood ^ $<0. Snapper. ^ gend ^ the House untli after tho
certain that be had ail their weapons I average $12 a week.
and he and Magrudcr went back to
make a further search. As soon as
Cain opened one of the cell doors the
man In it began to shoot, killing Ma-
gruder and shoting Cain through the
right lung. One of the meu Iri an-
other cell also opened fire on Cain,
hitting the
000 a day for each of the 365 days of who returned the^ shots, t
t. .. | prisoner in the arm. The man wno
The statement shows that 21.3 per shot Cain escaped by JumP Jg
through a window In the rear or tne
cent or 1,511,000.000 pounds of the su-
gar consumption of the country was
of home production; 17.7 per cent or
1.254,000,000 pounds was brought from
our insular possessions and the re-
A WHOLESALE POISONING.
American Soldier. Given a Drug In
the Philippine*.
In Doubt.
In a letter addressed to Clifford
L. Jackson of Muskogee, general at-
torney for the M., T. & T. railway in
Oklahoma, Attorney General West
states that there Is considerable
douibt as to the constitutionality of
the "Jim Crow" law passed toy the
first legislature.
Tested in Court*.
Becaues the local tax levy is 31 1-2
mills, while the state constitution ex-
pesslv states that the maximum levy
shall'be 24.5, local citizens of Musko-
get are entering vigorous protest
against this excess. A number of ex-
tensive property owners having
fused to pav their tax on this basis,
the issue will be tested In the courts.
Wednes-
Pardons for Three.
Pardons were granted
day by Governor Haskell to three
Convicts in the Oklahoma peniten-
tiary at McAlester, as follows. Dr.
S!d Breco of Pontotoc county, serv-
ing one year for manslaughter. Geo.
Burton of Pottawatomie county, ten
years for manslaughter; Sam J3yb<*'
Greer county, six year, for lar-
ceuy.
Commission Cites Corporations.
Guthrie, Okla.—The corporation
commission has cited the Wagoner
Waterworks company to appear be-
fore it for contempt, because of an
alleged violation of the commission s
order to tne company not to let its
standpipe overflow any more Com-
plaint was made by A. C. Cobb of
Wagoner, and the contempt case set
for January 20. Three citations
were also issued against railroads.
The Santa Fe is cited for violation
of the milling in transit order on
complaint of E. H. Flurey. and of
tb° order requiring prompt move-
ment of freight, on complaint of
L E Kimball. Both complaints are
set for hearing on January 14. The
Rock Island is also cited for viola-
tion of the prompt movement order
Oklahoma Inventors.
Washington, D. C.-Patents have
been granted to the following citi-
zens of Oklahoma during the past
W<A.k Burkholder, Lincolnville, tube
and rod clanip.
H. H. Dunnihoo. Shattuck, draft-
equalixer. .
H. f. Johnson. Bristow, detachable
I leaf check and pass book.
1907 was unique in that the quantity
of that product imported from foreign
countries was larger than ever be-
fore; the quantity brought from our
Island possessions was larger than in
any previous year; the quantity ex-
ported was larger than in any year of
the past decade and the per capita
consumption was the largest ever re-
corded, an average of 82.6 pounds for
each man, woman and child of conti-
nental United States.
The production of beet sugar for
the first time exceeded the production
of cane sugar, the product fo the year
being cane sugar, 544,000,000 pounds,
while the production of beet sugar
amounted to 967,000,000 pound*.
Hanahan to Leave Engineers.
New York.—Announcement was
made here Sunday that John J. Han-
nahan, grand master of the Brother-
hood of Locomotive Firemen and En-
gineers, would on January 1 next,
sever his official connection with the
organization to take the vice presi-
dency of the American Automatic
Stoker company with offices in Chi-
cago. D. W. Ross, with offices in
New York, is president of the com-
pany, in which Edwin Hawley and
Theodore P. Shonts of New York are
interested.
Jail. 
NEBRASKA BANKS ROBBED.
Cracksmen Used Motor Cars And
Were in Evening Dress.
Gibbon. Nebraska.—Six robbers,
attired in silk hats and evening dress,
blew up the safes of the Farmers'
State bank of Keene and the Commer-
cial bank of this city Friday morning,
secured $5,500 and escaped in a motor
car, after a fight with the authorities.
One of the bandits was. severely
wounded. He was assisted into the
machine and the robbers fled east-
ward. They were last seen at Shel-
ton.
Keene, 28 miles south of this place
on the Burlington railway, was first
attacked. Two burglar proof safes
were destroyed and a heavy steel
door was demolished. 1 ne robbers
got $3,000 there.
A farmer, aroused by the noise,
saw the bandits leaving the wrecked
building. He declared that they wore
silk hats and he saw one man hastily
pulling a long overcoat over an even-
ing dress suit. At about 1:30 o'clock
the motor car, a dark red one, sped
northward. In the bright moonlight,
he says, he got a good view of the
robbers.
Christmas recess.
Would Increase President's Salary.
Washington, D. C.—Senator Bourns
Thursday Introduced a bill providing
for an increase In the salary of the
president of the United States from
$50,000 to $100,000 and in the salary
of the vice president from $12,000 to
$25,000. The bill Is Intended to tako
effect at the beginning of the next
administration.
Need Money for Canal.
Washington.—A request for an ur-
Manila.—Eleven deaths have oc-
curred and 13 men are seriously 111
at Kelthley camp. Mindinao Island,
as a result of the men of the Eigh-
teenth Infantry drinking columblo,
acid, a vegetable compound extract-
ed from the calumba root. An offl- ^ deficiency appropriation of $5.-
cial investigation Is now being made lQ carry on the canal work at
by the military authorities, but no ^ prefjent rate during the remain-
details have been given out. The de- Qf the fl8ca, year wa3 recelved
tails of the wholesale poisoning havo tfae houge Friday from the "ec*
not been received and the names of £ war
15. The
lember 17.
To Have New Adjutant.
Jefferson City, Mo.—It is
prob-
State May Attack Helms.
Topeka, Kan.—More trouble Is
brewing for the Heim Brewing com-
able that Captain Frank M. Rumbold, pany q( Kangaa city. The company
of Light Battery "A," St. Louis, will wag flned j100 Thursday and costs
be appointed adjutant general after by the United states district court
Attorney General Hadley assumes the ^ vlolatjng pure food laws, and
office of governor. It is the under- thg gtate may talce a hand
standing here that the honor will and the company be called to answer
either go to Captain Rumbold or tQ the Kansas supreme court for con-
Lieutenant Chauncey G. Butterfield of temDt pred s. Jackson, attorney
^. .   .L   U „ nVinnnno favnh
Kansas City, with the chances favoi*
t.ng Captain Rumbold.
Fleet Leaves Colombo.
Washington.—Rear Admiral Charle*
S. Sperry, commanding the American
battleship fleet, has cabled the navy
general, has started an investigation
to see what rights the state has on
which to base the contempt proceed-
ings.
They Bleach Their Flour.
   „ . Lincoln, Neb.—The entire milling
department that the fleet made its de- lndustry of Nebraska will oppose the
parture Sunday from Colombo, Ceylon, recent order of Secretary ot Agricul-
Robbed by Its Operators.
Portland, Ore.—An investigation by
the Western Union Telegraph com-
pany, carried on during the past six
months, has disclosed an organr/.ed
system of theft among railroad o; or-
ators on the Pacific coast by reas n
of which the telegraph company h is
been robbed of an amount estimated
at several hundred thousand dollars,
according to a statement made Sun-
day night by an official of the com-
pany who is in charge on the investi-
gation.
Former English Publisher Dead.
Boston—John Kerrison. formerly
publisher and owner of several new*
papers in England and the founder of
the first half-penny daily in that coun-
try. died Sunday night at the age of
70 years.
A Rockefeller Suit for Libel.
New York.—On a charge of crimi-
nal libel, made by John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., S. S. Carvalho, president of the
Star company, publishers of William
R. Hearst's New York American, was
arrested Thursday and arraigned in
police court before Magistrate Finn.
At the solicitation of Clarence J.
Shearn, attorney for the Hearst pub-
lications, and without any objection
being raised on the part of Assistant
District Attorney Garvan, Mr. Carval-
ho was paroled in the custody of his
lawyer until December 26.
To Keep Off Mosquitoes.
Chicago. Illinois—Dr. Alonzo C.
Tenney says that eucalyptus trees are
a safeguard against annoyance by mo-
squitoes when placed near human
habitations. He suggests that some
of these trees be planted in the pro-
posed park belt in Chicago.
parture Sunday from Colombo, ceyion,1 recent order _
for Suez. The fleet has begun the ture wnson prohibiting the transport-
longest single leg of its world cruise ing and saje of bleached flour in in-
through the Indian ocean, the Ara-
bian and Red seas.
terstate commerce. A meeting will
be held in Lincoln in January to op-
pose this order, which is thought to
be a death blow to millers who are
forced to grind winter wheat. Only by
Veteran Publisher Dead.
New York.—Maj. Orlando Jay  
Smith, president and general manager J bleaching can they produce a white
of the American Press association j tiour that ranks well in the markeL
since 1882, died at his home in Dobbs j    
Perry Sunday night. Maj. Smith had | Extortion No Crime in Nebraska,
been ill since September at which Lincoln, Neb—The supreme court
time he was operated upon for cancer
of the stomach.
of Nebraska Thursday declared the
act making extortion a crime uncon-
stitutional on the grounds that it lim-
its its protection to resident, of Ne-
braska and similarly limits Its pen-
alties in violation of both the state
A Sunday Afternoon Paper.
Baltimore—the first Sunday J'.-r-
noon issue of the Baltimore .News ip-
peared Sunday ard was the first rai-
ular Sunday afternoon •■ditiou of fcuj
newspaper to be yrlnted In this city.
French Monument to American.
Paris.—A Franco-American commit
tee has been formed to take charge ot  
the erection In Paris of a monument. and federal constitutions. On the ap-
to the memory of Horace Wells, a peal of Attorney R. J Greene ia Lin-
Hartford chemist to whom is accredit-. coin attorney convicted ot «xtortlc«
ed the discovery of laughing gas. and fined $200 He wasReused of e*-
  ! torting money from saloonkeeper®.
Frost in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles—An unusually heavy
frost occurred Thursday morning gen- «.« _
other crops. I ^
Sprocket. Out of Honolulu Bank.
Honolulu—W. G. Irwin of the W.