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THE INOLA REGISTER.
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STRIKE IS ON
IN ENGLAND
WEN TIE UP ALL RAILROAD LINES
COMPLETELY
CONGRESSMAN THOMAS F. KONOP
ARMY IS ON THE MOVE
Practically a State of War Prevails,
and Grave Fear* Felt That Blood-
abed Will Follow the Going
Out of Railway Employe*
Number of railway employes, 600.-
000.
Number of union employe* expected
to go out at once, 125,001).
Daily losses in wages to employes,
$12S,000.
Daily loss In traffic receipts to com-
panies, estimated ut $325,000. or SO
per cent of usual receipts.
Total railroad mileage In United
Kingdom. 24,ooo.
Capital invented In Knglish rail-
roads, $7,575,000,000.
I here are fifteen companies iu Kng-
land and Wales, live in -Scotland and
•seven in Ireland.
London—The great railway war la
on An order calling out all the union
employes of the railroads of Great
Hritirin, in numbers between 125,out)
and l.'iO.OOO, but involving a total of
ftOO.OOit inen. was Issued Thursday aft-
ernoon. ufter all attempts to avert it
had failed.
War. has-been declared, and war It
will be," was the slogan of the union
leaders.
No sooner had the strike order been
issued than the war office began or-
dering soldiers under way to protect
property of the rallt-oads and to help
them run their trains. A number of
railroad employes had gone out earlier
In the day without orders from the'
general union, and it was estimated
that when the order became effective
fully 100,000 men were out.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
soldiers, practically the entire home
arm-, were under e-.trah« order
Thursday. Three thousand troops'
with 52.000 rounds of ammunition and '
twelve powerful machine guns were 1
brought Into Ixindoti. All of the mil- 1
Itary preparations for the strike had Chicago.—Two aviators, William R.
been made. | Iladger of Pittsburg and St. Croix
Not only were soldiers moved to J Johnstone, of Chicago, both young
London, but there was activity In all 'nen, lost their lives at the interna
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INOLA. OKLAHOMA, THUBSDAY, AUGUST 24. 1911.
EMiriVE IS
PROBING DEEP
103*281 ACRES OF STATE
LAND ARE AS YET UNSOLD
GOVERNOR t.EE CRUCE WANTS
FACTS NOT MUCKRAKING
Total of 168.354 Acrcs In Public Build-
ing Tracts Have Been Disposed
of—Statement In Detail
TWO ARE DEAD
ONE IS INJURED
MEIER IS FIRST WITNESS
Hearing of Charges Preferred by D
posed Professors Is Under Way
and Will Continue Unitl They
are Thoroughly Probed
Oklahoma City — Airing of the
charges against the slate board oI
education was commenced Thursday
afteriioon in a paoli : hearing b< foro
Governor Cruce Or. Jlenry Meier,
deposed by the board as Head of the
department of German at the state
university, who is now employed in
the same department at Vandorbilt
university, Nashville, Tenn.. was the
only witness examined at the lirst
Bession. His. direct exainiualion w.ta
concluded just before adjournment.
Oklahoma City—John K. Williams,
secretary to the school land commis-
•loner*, has prepared a detailed state- ' SCHOOL DiSTn.r-r reus .UM
ment In regard to the condition of p-jb- j FEUD ENDS
lie building lands and the public build- | PITCHED BATTLE
lug fund, showing that the original ——--
number of acres was 271.63fi.57, of
which 16>*,354.28 have been sold, leav-
ing 103,281 73 still unsold. The land
sold was appraised at $2,610,598.80 and
the improvements on it at $1,<>34,- j
384.."4. The land was sold for $3,104,-
380.70, an Increase of $493,781.70 over 1
the appraisement. The initial pay-
ment on the land sold amounted to ;
$163,687.69, and $26,503.37 has been
received so far on the first install- 1
PHYSICIAN IS ARRESTED
Inefficiency of Ownership Certificate
Questioned by On# Contestant,
Words Follow, and the Quar-
rel Ends Fatally
Chickasha. Okla.—As the result of
ment of the deferred payment, leaving j a ■chool district feud In McClain coun-
$2,914,189.64 still due. ty In the Washington school district
There will be 70,314.35 acres of pub- ' tw<*nty miles eaat of Chickasha, Will
lie building land included In the next Aury and Tom McClendon, two school
sale, appraised at $1,376,388.57 and «®«-'ers and wealthy intermarried elb
with Improvements appraised at $547,^ 'zena of that Bectlon are dead and llr.
396 97. There are still 32.967.37 acres J- H- Colby of Purcell, Okla., la under
not sold aud not Included in the next arre*t. Colby was wounded in tb, ■
sale, which are apprataed at $265, shooting scrape which occured thei't.
712.60. The trouble grew eut of a schctoj
I He will i,„ „,m ^ Tbe to,al a,n°unt of rent collected feud and lawsuit over possession 'nf
tion vihei h« K . to cross-exainina- from the public building lands is $992,- an atre of ground upon which the
It u „J * ''"V"?*'" resumed 905.03. The expense has been $63,- l B<'boolhouse of that community sit*.
' other wifn« m t i* 473 04. and the amount of money re- F- w- Loder originally owned the
time as dWMeier h* ^ Ti'' t tUrnPd ,4'477'"5- l«**lng the net re- land a"d Kave a certificate lefor
witness f.,r fh as he is the chief ceipts from the rents $854,954.94. The «'atehood to the district. rellnluish-
he whn ^e prosecution. It was interest collected from deferred pay- ln« his to the land and donating
obtaiie,! II 6 n ? investigations and meuts has amounted to $64,652.61. ft to ,h« •ohool. R. R. Glencoe pur^
obtained the affidavits on which the Th„re js $3fM- of |ntw,f now pa8, | chased the land and refused to recog-
relying <iUe and $139,267.46 that will be due nl2e tli« certificate as a title or own-
and payable during the next twelve crship. He mortgaged the land for a
Opponents of the board are
primarily in the hearing. Meier testi- [
Ued in regard to his own dismissal,
without a hearing and without
charges, and also related the result of
his investigations in regard to I.ynn
Glover, now president of the Tonkawa
preparatory school, aud Paris I'ers-
montbs.
Nominated for congress by the Democrats In a district considers! ..r__
17 Republican, Thomas V. Konop if Kewaunee. Wis., was elected last autumn
y a plurality of five votes. He representa the Ninth district. Mr Knnnn
was born In Kewauuee county in 1879, and has been a school teacher and a not lo b«
marfl«"' Madge U Nolan In 1905. and has one daughter and three a,,d that
charges against the character of any
employe of
Studies Training Schools
Oklahoma City—E B. Nelson, su
(verintendent of th e state training
well, selected financial agent of the I school at Pauls Valley, has been sent
state university to succeed W. W. | east by the state board of education
Williams. j to study the training schools of other
Governor Cruce had stated at the s-tates and will visit Chicago, New ^ ,uulluu
beginning of the hearing that this Is Vork and other of the large cities of school property"' The Judgeof'the dl*
not to be a "mi.ckr.ikin* n-nr^uinn- I the country befnr^ ,rict court of McCU!n county enjoined
considerable amount, the deed show-
ing the entire acreage including the
land where the school house stood. Dr.
J H. Colby of Purcell purchased the
mortgage and recently took possession
of the land. He refused to acknowl-
edge any right of the Washington
school district to the land and at-
tempted to build a house on the acrb
of land held by the community
muckraking proposition" 1 the country before returning,
he woun* not consider '
TWO MORE AVIATORS
LOSE LIVES AT CHICAGO
Johnstone Drowned in Lake Michigan
and Badger Killed Beneath Ma
chine in Fall on the Feld
PRESIDENT TAFT VETOES
ARIZONA-N.1W Mfcxico BILL
Returns Measure With Message De-
claring He Cannot Approve the
Vicious Recall Provision
state school unless it
could be shown that members of the
boanl knew of conditions at the time
the Kppoiiitrri'-nt was made. Meier's i
testimony was calculated to show that of ttat co>:niy had trade :>n
such knowledge was inthe possession °rder directing him to apportion the
Rule Is Flexible
Oklahoma City—The county clerk of
Woods county notified the state audi
tor's o(l\o * tha> ti e county commis-
the military stations and soldiers were
on the move to all centers where n
railroad strike might precipitate vio-
lence or cut off the nation's food sup-
ply.
Washington.—bet-taring It is his duty
to disapprove the Judicial recall clause
of the Arizona constitution, and assert-
ing that "an untrammeled judiciary is
the corner-stone of a good Kovern-
of some members of the board in
both of those cases.
The hearing was opened with a
statement from Governor Croce, in
which he announced that he would
not be bound by technical rules of
evidence, but «m>u1'' try to get at the
Press Day at State Fair
Oklahoma City. Announcement has
JJuht been made that Saturday. Sep-
tember 3o. will be -Press Day at the
Oklahoma State Fair. While tile latch
string will be out every day of the big
exjKisiilou for the publishers, Secre-
tary 1. S Mahan says that he wants
a big reunion of the men who makes
tlonal aviation meet here. In dying
both revealed the frailty of the ,'raft
In which two score morq aviators were
curving and gliding about in the air,
with scarcely a pause for the deaths message on the resolution admitting
of their coutemiiorarles. Arizona and New Mexico to statehood"
IH ath in both cases was due to un- "I r<
sultlr'of'' uniHi^iw^a pri'babiy there- proval.'says the president, "house Joint railroad" derived a greater revenue
$4,000,000 increase made by the state
board of equalization on the valuation
at Woods county over all classes of
property except money and credits,
without regard to the increases or de-
creases in the various classes made
by the state board. He was advised
Colby from building the house and
again issued an injunction against his
fencing the school land. "
No deed Is held by the s. hool di-
rectors for the property, but the
court has ruled that the land shall be
held by the district Several suits are
pending In the case iu the district
court of McClain county.
Dr. Colby rebuilt the fence around
the school property Friday night and
Saturday morning the news of this
spread. Members of the school
board, amcng them Autry and McClen-
don. with many of the patrons of the
tnent." President Taft sent ty jthe house fncU ln manner possible, so far ,lat commissioners had authority district, went to the school property
of representative hi* expected veto a" ,bey aff"rt of the board. apportion the Increase only within to demand redress from Colby Colbr
•he class for which tfae Increase was was there with a loaded sho'gun
nade and could not chance the total a ...,V. .
Made Money at 2c
board.
aused by ••arelessness nor states into the union on an ^17o<£ j toThere"'tha"e|t'dhl"t|nr'Text."''
in no way
lack of responsibility of the aviators.
| Iladger, a wealthy youth, came to his
i death in a pit in the aviation field.
| 1 here had been a flaw In one of the
ing with the original states.'
the newspapers of Oklahoma, on the I wings of the propeller of the Maldwln
special day set aside for them. machine he drove. Centrifugal force
In selecting Saturday, Mr. Mahan. I broke the propeller, upset the delicate
says that he believes that day will j equilibrium of the machine and Iladger
afford the greatest number an appor-
tunlty to come to Oklahoma City. Most
of the publishers, especially the week-
lies. get out their papers on Thurs-
day. and the Secretary of the fair
wants them to leave at once for Okla-
homa City, so that they can reach the
fair grounds early Saturday morning.
While a program has not been out-
courtesy w ill fee extended the publish-
•rs. It is pro|H)se<j to make them have
the time of their lives.
Socialist Secretary Resigns
Milwaukee, Wis. J. Mahlen Barnes,
secretary of the national socialist par-
ty. has resigned. Mr. Ilarnes' action
followed an attack on ills personal
character by u luwyer and a preacher
in Chicago.
with h
3-cent rate, Missouri with a rate of
if I sign this Joint resolution, I do 2*4 cents and Kansas with a 2-cetit
not s-e how 1 I ail escape responsibility rate. Is shown In an exhibit filed with
fur the judicial recall of the Arizona the corporation commission by the
constitution. line. The exhibit was a part of sta-
' This provlsiun of the Arizona con- ll"tics compiled by the road for the
made and could not change the total A fight ensued in which Will Autry
for eat h class fixed by the state and Tom McClendon received Injuries
of such a nature as to result in their
- — death. Autry died almost Instantly.
Both were intermarried citlens an4
wealthy land owfcers of that commu-
nity.
Worms Damage Cotton
Oklahoma City—Letters have been
received by the board of agriculture
Iroin Canute announcing the appear-
ance there of a worm resembling in
a general way the army worm, which
is playing havoc with the cotton.
Samples of the pest which were sent
_ _____ mm-er ,t"u,'"n• 'n "• application to county "e'"l year ending June 30, 1910, and in will be forwarded to the state ento-
1 dashed 100 feet "to" "he bottom oTtl'e a''d S'a'e jud,:P8' to me so per- *aB 0I,?J in connection with the pro- mologist at Stillwater for expert ad-
pit, his neck being broken nicious in its effects, so restrictive of Pos,*d order of the commission regulat- vice as to best steps to take in Its
Johnstone fell 500 feet tinder his en- ' l-df.P?n<,M,.°.e l°,he Juil(,|aT. so likely | lnB grain and hay rate. extermination.
gine and was drowned in Lake Mlchl !" "j"* rights of the Individual
— " the result of an equally unsus- ^"toritJ.h'T"' °f " 1
defect. Caught under the heavy be
gati as th
pected
engine In the Moisant monoplane, he
was carried deep into the lake
Commission Asks More Informatior
Ardmore Dond Issue
San
possible tyranny of a popular
v_, and therefore to be so In- i . .
J jurious to the cause of free govern- 1 Oklahoma City—The corporation Ardmore. Okla—The board of city
meet, that 1 must disapprove a constl- commission of Oklahoma has Issued a C0,nm'"'0Iler* passed a resolution
tutlon containing It." ( citation to all railroads of Oklahoma calllnK ,or 14 1,00,1 ls8U,' of 150,000 to
The president in vigorous language l-° u,,,H,nr b,'for* 11 a"" «ive evidence ,h" wa,*r * l>ply th
itlofi that would ! resar,""g their physical valuations, em ° ** *"
To Dismiss Indictments
Knincluco.—The district court condemns any legislation that would i - —
of appeals of the First district issued place restrictions upon W->udl(iarv. * "Kures to be used in the annual
n peremptory writ of mandamus to ( declaring thiit the .majority canhnt al rel>orl of the commission. Officials
compel Superior Judge William P. Law. i ways be trusted to decide questions <.f of ,he Colorado & Santa Fe line Oklahoma Citj
ler to dismiss Indictments pending moLient for all the people, and'asserts ' ^ foro the commission recently nienced
against Patrick. Calhoun, Thornwell "la' the recall la "pernicious In iTs ef o^ ''1* '° changes under way in the
Mullalay. Tirey L. Ford and William fects. destructive o( independence in roa,'l1<><1. 'hey were unable to give
j M Abbott, charged wfth bribing the Judiciary, likely to subjec t the right U"" ,ie,>lr*d Inforuiation. They were
Heuf Schmltz supervisors In connec- the individual to tjie tyranny of a a8,t,'d commission to submit
i 'ton with the Cnlted Railroads trolley popular majority, and hijuriout. to the dH,a bpforp October 1.
franchise. cause offree government." j
Married a Day! Elopes
Hammond. Ind. After having been
married but a day to Paul Posslti of
Chicago Heights, Misa
Lankford Begins Suit
Suit has been com-
in the district court by J. 1 .
Lankford, state bank commissioner.
aualnst I*r J. M. Postelle to collect
$2,000, the par value of twenty shares I«ee-Hueklna. tendered
of stock in the Planters and Mechanics
bank, held by the latter.
SPANISH WAR VETERANS
GATHERING AT CAPITAL
Delegations From wt Parts of the
Country Arrive in Oklahoma City
For National Encampment
Oklahoma City.—Delegates to the
eighth annual encampment of the
United Spanish war veterans to the
number of 1,000 strong entered Okla-
homa City on a peaceful Invaaion Sat-
urday night and Sunday, and at the
rate at which the "vets" are still ar-
riving it Is Indicated that double that
number will have registered by Mon-
da> night. As Is ever the case, the
gates of the metropolis of the state
have heen swuug wide In welcome to
the guests—all of whom are pleased
over their selection of Oklahoma City
as the 1911 convention city.
Sundav night hundreds of the visi-
tors attended the reception at the
by Mrs. Ida
M. Galloway, president of the genep-
11 auxiliary, and members of her
staff
lnjuncv.cn In irrigation Row
Publicity Agreed Upon r,. . ,
... . Oklahoma t Ity Secretury lien llen-
v asnuigton The senate without flcssey of the *t:.te board of agrlcul
Quarantine Line To Be Moved Up
Oklahoma City That more of Okla-
homa will be placed above the federal
quarantine line this year than In an> I t'hicago Heights, Miss Kuth Gilmore ! division or discussionI 7.1^ ol agncui
previous year since the work of tick | <" Hennsaelor. Ind.. 17. met her girl, conferen. e on ,u. L " .? btt'" !Pr,V,M' W"h notUe
extermination was started, Is the I'"0*! sweetheart, Gossle Brown of publicity bill and -l r a«M'-"Kn Injunction proceedings In the Gay.
opinion of Frank" Ikard. siperlnten- I H.nssaeler. 18 years old. and JJoped S LZZtle .X" bT ° """ 1""r° —
dent of live stock inspection lor the I w'") him. Possln is 48 years old. a terred
state board of agriculture, who was
In Shawnee for a conference with
the county inspectors 1n Pottawat- !
Oklahoma City
oinle county in regard to the work
now being done In that county. Two
townships have already been placed
above the fed ral line and the clean-
up work is now going on over ab-iut
half of the county, with very salia-
faotory results.
Hug do-
i ■ . . . until sometime later The
widower and has three children. He measure then will be ready for the
had only known the girl a week and • president's signature. -The bill as
was a ease of love at (lr l sight, tagreed to by the conferees Includes
from Olustee, in which an order was
asked to enjoin him from making any
final order in regard to the water
rights asked In those cases. The case
was dismissed iu the lower court, but
Requisition Issued _ _
For Publ.c Ownership
, A ™'uisi,ion has Washington.—Senator LaFolletta
^xLTor' W «en,0r r°lqUit! °f ,mr0dU^'' " resolution for the „w ner-
Texus for \\ A. bavage. wanted in ship of railways, docks and •erminal.
(.rady county on a charge of obtain- |n Alaska bv the rm.nat.
ing money under false pretenses
territory, these
government of the
utilities to be In
Amusement Park Burned
'.h-* enate amendment extending the will be appealed and the
whole ques-
Clnclnnatl, O. Fire which is thought' wipenseli'to prfnulry"and < I of ,he termination of water
to have originated from a pan of tlons and'rtoiiiiauig"^
Rice Crop Ruined
Pekin—Five hundred iiersons nre
homeless and 3,000,oun more are men-
aced with starvation as a result of
terrific floods that have been raging
for two days In the province of Anhul
The water has washed out 2.15,000
acres of rice and there is no hope of
an autumn crop. This la the worst
agricultural disaster that Chlua erer
has suffered.
grease in the kitchen of the club home well
nt Chester Pn: 1;. amusement resort, amendment limits candidates for sen
destroyed mat y , , i.sement buildings a,or to a campaign ex^ndlture of
and spread rapidiv to two lumber <to,OM and candidates for
yards adjoinlug. L«-ss $175,000.
Incendiary Burns Horses
Dodge ("lly, Kan—While Jot Mcl'ar
ty. a farmer living three miles nortl
to general elections. -The
Pepresen
Blacksmith Arrested
, . . Columbia. Mo.-Ed Brooka. a black
of here, was In Ikslge City to attend a sn.Hh and suspect w„.. arrested and ,t
circus unknosu parties drove seven lu the Booue county Ju l to await trial
head of his horses from the pasture j on a charge of sending threatening
Into his barn snd set lire to the strue letters to J. W Urockman wealthy
ture. All the horses were burned to farmer. In an ende.vor to extort
death, while the barn was a total loss $10,000.
rights may be threshed out iu con-
nection with It.
West In St. Paul
Oklahoma City Attorney General
Charles West Is In St. Paul to attend
a meeting of the committee recently
named at a conference of the attor-
ney general of the state now Involved
in litigation over the two-ceut pas-
senger fare. This committee Is to
agree on a uniform plan of action for
all of the states concerned, so thai
they can render mutual assistance
bud support In these cases.
h i, ' „ , W"h d"frH"0inK '"an* of a board of public work, a"
I ob Boswell out of $25 on a worthless pointed by -the preside,,' He la-
check on the Amatillo Pank and Trust nounced he would speak on the re£
company of An,arlllo. Texas. He ,a lutlon Monday. Senltor l!«FoMett^
now under arrest at San Antonio, measure bears on the Controller Raj
v a'"l Alaska railroad Incident that baa
j figured In various ways before con-
gress, In connection with the alleged
attempt of Guggenheim interests t*
acquire a monopoly In 'hat section
First Cotton at Hugo
Hugo, Okla.—Hugo received her first
bale of 1911 cotton Monday, brought in
by S. C. Conder, who brought the first
bale last year one week later. The
bale weighed 400 pounds and sold for
Five Perish: Loss 91.000,000
Frankfort, Germany.—The Opel
Sewing machine and bicycle factory
| U Kusselheim was destroyed by Are
tarly Sunday morning Five persons
Hogs Average 212' j Pounds
Red Rock, Okla.——The best carload | perished in the Hamas and many were
Loss more than $1,000,009
of hogs Been In Noble county this year j Injured
wus brought In by Sam Carpenter and
sold to W. T. Donuhoe. There were
seventy-six head, averaging 212'4
pounds In weight.
it cents a pound
President Signs Publicity Bill
W astiluKtou. -The campulgu pub-
licity bill was signed by President
taft.
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