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THE INOLA REGISTER.
NO. 29
INOLA, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1914.
VOL. VIII.
AUSTIN CUNNINGHAM
inn for
JOHN BURKE
STATE CAPITAL HAPPENINGS
Ask* Order Upon Express Firms.
Acting in pursuance of the opinion
handed down in the supreme court
gome time ago by Judge R. L. Wil-
liams, directing the four big express
companies operating in the state to
pay back to its Oklahoma customers
approximately $700,000 collected in ex-
cessive rates. Attorney General West
filed with the corporation commission
a request (or an order directing the
officers of the Wells-Fargo, American,
Southern and Adams express com-
panies to furnish a complete stale
ment of the exact amount of refund
due.
Several years ago the corporation
commission Issued an order promul
gating new rates to be charged by
express companies in Oklahoma
The express companies refused to
abide by the order and continued to
charge their own rate pending an
appeal from the order to the supreme
court. Several months ago Judge
Williams wrote the opinion affirming
the rates fixed by the commission and
directing the companies to pay back
to Its customers the difference between
tbe rate charged and that fixed by
the commission.
The express companies applied for
a new hearing of the case and thlB
also was denied by the court in an
opinion handed down by Judge Wil
Hams the same day the Oklahoma City
telephone refund was affirmed. The
«xpress companies have appealed to
the federal court at Guthrie, where
the case now is pending on an appeal
for an Injunction to restrain the pay
ment of the refund.
The express companies have been
required by the corporation commis-
sion to give a supersedeas bond to in
demnify its customers against any loss
while the rate litigation is in progress.
High Schools To Have 2.000 Grade.
That 2,000 studentn will be gradu-
ated from the high schdols of Okla-
homa this year is the statement of
Professor A. C. Parsons, etate high
school Inspector. Last year there
were 1,300 graduated from the state
secondary schools.
These 2,000 students, Professor Par-
sons says, will come from 150 four-
year high schools in tbe state, though
there are about 600 schools doing
fome work above the regular eighth
grade. The total number of 6E0 In-
cludes eighty-two consolidated schools
and about eighty Independent districts
just formed since the passing of the
new law permitting cities of less than
500 Inhabitants having independent
systems. ,
The total enrollment of the high
schools is about 25,000, or 8,000 more
than were enrolled last year. They
receive instruction from 1,650 teach-
ers and draw from an enrollment in
the grades of 475,000. The total num-
ber of teachers of the high schools
and grades Is approxlmamtely 12,000.
Tbe high school of Hinton affiliated
with the state university last week.
Four Killere Given Parolee.
Four manslaughter "prisoners have
been paroled from the state peniten
tiary, on recommendation of the board
of prison control, the paroles having
been granted by Governor Cruce.
In one case, that of -J. R. Rose
who was sentenced in Piltsburg coun
ty about three years ago on a charge
of manslaughter and drew fifteen
years, the trial judge. P. D. Brewer
recommends the parole on the ground
that he thought he might have been
too severe. Rose was not a bad man
but went on occasional sprees
one of these occasions he fired his pis
tol several times and one of the bul
lets went Into a house and killed a
woman. Judge Brewer says In his
recommendation for a parole that the
man could hardly have been guilty
of more than criminal neglect.
In the case of Ed. Ryan, convicted
in Coal county, April. 1910, of man-
slaughter, the suggestion is made
that be was a public benefactor be
cause of the manslaughter His case
was Investigated by President Kirk-
wood of the A. H. T. A., and the rec-
ommendation was made for his pa-
role. Ryan was sentenced to eight
years in prison .
Willie Jones, convicted in Pittsburg
countv in January. 1911. was sen-
tenced to four years for manslaugh-
ter. He has served all but about two
months of the sentence.
A good prison record and the be-
lief that he is still a useiul life helped
Joe B. Hardwlck. convicted in Mar-
sha?; county in November, 1912. of
manslaughter, and given five years, to
get his parole.
LEADERS 8AV CONSIDERATION
OF PROBLEM DELAYS TOR-
REON ATTACK.
NORTH ADO SOUTH DIFFERENT
Another Convention Captured.
Oklahoma City has captured an-
other important convention. It is the
Southern Commercial congress which
is expected to bring thousands of vis-
itors, possibly including President
Wilson, and will be held here in the
latter part of October, the exact dates
not yet having been fixed. The news
that Oklahoma City had been select-
ed from among several larger con-
testants was wired a week ago by
Secretary of Agriculture Ben F. Hen-
nessey, who has Just returned from
Washington where he was present at
meeting of directors of the con-
gress. Mr. Hennessey said on his re-
turn that Houston was the closest
rival in bidding for the meeting.
Examiner To Probe Interstate Fares.
Two Sections Have Little In Common:
Carranza and Villa Deny.—
Soldiere Resting On
Their Arme.
Chihuahua.—A plan for the forma-
tion in northern Mexico of a new re-
public is being perfected, according
to persistent rumors in circulation
here.
Certain rebel leaders intimate that
the delay of the constitutionalist at-
tack on Torreon Is due to the scheme
for the divorce. While General Car
ranza, civil head of the revolution, and
General Villa, military leader, disclaim
any part in a plan which does not in
elude the overthrow of Huerta, it is be-
lieved by many here that the propose
tion for an independent republic la be
ing seriously considered by them and
others.
Reports emanating from Mexico
City that the federal garrison at Tor
reon has been strengthened to a point
where it can make a formidable re-
sistance have added impetus to the
idea of a separation of the north
from the south and General Car
ranza's coming to Chihuahua from the
Pacific coast is looked upon as pos
sibly indicating an early adoption of
the plan.
Embracee Five Statea
The territory which it is said might
be formed into a separate republic em
braces the five Btates along the United
An inveetigation by accountants has
revealed euch confusion In the affaire
of the office of the treaeurer of the
United States that congreseional ac-
tion hae been aaked and it la probable
there will be changee in the pereonnel
of the ofnee. John Burke, former gov-
ernor of North Dakota, la the treaeur-
er, having been appointed by Preei-
dent Wilson.
Hearing of the application of Okla- _ .
homa, Arkansas an Missouri for bprder--0oocra j:hlhuahfl*H|at(riBMea southwest of this town. ta
amendment to present interstate nil
lngs so that the two-cent passenger
rate will be applicable to all points in
Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma will
be heard before Examiner Watkins of
the Interstate commerce commission,
in Oklahoma City, March 12, aceord-
ing to notice received by the corpor-
ation commission. The three states
mentioned have 2-cent railroad fare,
but passengers traveling interstate are
required to pay at the rate of three
cents a mile, under terms of prevail
Ing Interstate regulations. Oklahoma
joined the other two states in one
appeal to the national commission for
an amendment to present rules so
that passengers traveling Interstate
between the three states will have
the full benefit of the 2-cent fare.
Coabulla, Nuevo Leon and Tamaullpas,
with possibly the inclusion of Sinaloa.
From virtullay all this territory the
Huerta army has been driven out, the
chief remaining strongholds of the fed
erala being at Tampico, on the east,
Y0UN6 FARMER SHOOTS THREE
EVERETT NORRIS KILLS ONE OF
HIS INTENDED VICTIMS.
Young Man Shoots Relatives While at
Work on Their Farms.—Woman
Assassinated In Her House.
Wellston.—A dispute over the di-
vision of a quarter section of school
land and other domestic trouble led
Everett Norris, a young farmer living
start on a wholesale killing expedi-
tion and before he had finished, his
father-in-law, W. W. Riley, was dead
and his father, Frank Norris, and a
young man named Alcorn, a brother-
in-law, were dangerously wounded.
Monterey. Saltlllo and Torreon on the j Both wju die. Norris is in jail.
Militia Land Was Inspected
Adjutant General Frank M. Canton
returned from McAlester where he
has been inspecting the 640-acre tract
of land near that cltv which lias been
offered for maneuver grounds for the
state militia. General Canton had
the boundary lines of the tract es-
tablished. The plat of ground has
been offered by the clfy of McAles-
ter and title to It must be delivered
to the government before the proposi-
tion can b approved by the state.
The government will furnish
ment and money for necessary build-
ings. aften the project has been fully
established.
Maneuver grounds have been es-
tablished In each stale, where state
•troops or volunteers may be mobii
!zed in case of emergency, and the
grounds are to be used for maneu-
vering purposes. In the event that
the project Is approved there will
vrobably be a hundred buildings of
-various kinds erected.
Help Get Statistics.
A proposed order by which the
corporation commission hopes to fa-
cilitate the gathering of ^statistics as
to the amount of intrastate business
transacted by the railroads in Okla-
homa and in order that the state may
have a more Intelligent basis upon
which to compote rates, was Issued
by the corporation commission.
The order is addressed to all rail-
roads and if finally promulgated in
Its present form, would require them
to report for each fiscal year the
number of car miles run in Okla-
homa by freight, passenger, switch,
mixed, gasoline and electric locomo-
tives. also by freight and passenger
trains. The first report would com-
mence with the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1914.
Guthrie Viaduct Case Settled.
The supreme court last week took
what will probably be final action in
the Guthrie viaduct case, which has
been la the court for the past two or
three years. An appeal by the Santa
Fe from an order of the corporation
commission waa dismissed recently by
the high court. Tbe commission had
issued sn order dealgnsting the char-
acter of the viaduct thst should be
constructed The railroad company
all along hae maintained the position
that the commission had no jurisdic-
tion in the matter.
May Merge Districts.
School districts may not be reduced
to less than the provisional nine miles
of territory, hut one or more districts
may be entirely eliminated by bring
merged into one. Is the opinion from
the attorney general's office answer-
ing inquiry from the county superin-
tendent of Kingfisher county if ter-
ritory from one district may be de-
tached to join another under the con-
solidation laws passed by the last leg-
islature. The district must have not
less than nine square miles of terri-
tory and to detach from one to add
to another would be to eliminate the
one. or make It Impossible to re-
main a district and comply with the
law.
south; Guaymas on the west and
Neuvo Laredo and Piedras Negras on
the north.
Asserting that the revolutionary
leaders may have to content them-
selves with victories in the north, of-
ficials high in the rebel government
admit that one reason for the over-
throw of Preaident Madero was that
he represented the ideals of the north
at the seat of the government in the
south.
Torreon Surrounded.
Most of Villa's soldiers, whom he
says number 10,000 or more, are de
ployed along tbe railroad south of here
with their base at Jlminez and Esca
Ion. Why they have been kept idly
waiting is a question they were un-
able to explain. Tbe belief in Chihua-
hua is that they were sent out be-
cause General Villa did not want to
maintain so many soldiers In one city.
The disposition of the rebels is
At Jiminez, General Montclovio Her-
rera, 2,000.
At Escalon, under General Maximo
Garcia. 1,200.
Marching across Durango state to
Mapimi, north of Torreon, uuder Gen
eral Tomas ITrblna 2,500: in Durango
state (southwest of Torreon). under
General Calixto Contreas. 3.000: In
Zacatecas state (south of Torreon),
under General Pantilo Natera, 1.000.
East of Torreon. under General Ag>
ullar. an unknown number.
In Chihuahua City, under General
Aguirre Benavides. 1.300.
The federal garrison at Torreon Is
variously estimated at from 6.000 tb
10.000.
The shooting took piace on the
farms of Norris and Riley between
11 and 12 o'clock. The young man
used a rifle, shooting his father-in-
law through the head, killing him in-
stantly, his father was shot five times
in the head and body and Alcorn once
in the body. Young Norris, who is
about 25 years of age. was arrested
and taken to the county jail at Chand-
ler. where he is held on a charge of
murder.
Norris and his wife, a daughter of
Riley, had been separated for some
time. This had led to his domestic
troubles with his father-in-law. Then
all members of the family had quar-
reled regarding the school quarter on
which Norris lived. Three years ago
Norris attacked his father with a
knife and he has been in several
other difficulties.
TLAHUALILO WILL BE HELD
NEUTRAL BY BOTH REBELS
AND FEDERALS.
VILU ADOPTS MERCIFUL POLICY
Learning Proper Method of Treating
Prisoners From General 8cott.—
Big Battle Will Soon
Be Fought.
Washington. — Establishment of a
neutral zone in which non-combatants
of Torreon and vicinity may find
safety when Mexican federals and con-
stitutionalists clash In the next great
battle of the Mexican revolution, was
assured when General Villa agreed to
the plan.
General Huerta already had assent-
ed with the stipulation that binding
assurances that the zone would be re-
spected be outlined from the consti-
tutionalists. This idea originated with
the state department as the result of
expressions of apprehension from for-
eign embassies and legations here for
the safety of their citizens.
General Hugh L Scott at Fort Bliss
was charged to lay the matter before
General Villa and he broached the sub-
ject in a personal talk on the Inter-
national border which was followed up
by a formal agreement.
Incidentally, it 1s understood Gen-
eral Scott has been successful In in-
ducing General Villa to adopt civilized
methods of warfare and in advising ai
to the proper method of treating pris-
oners of war and non-combatants. The
rebel leader is said to have shown
himself amenable to suggestions.
Considering the location of Torreon
in a rough and hilly country, it has
been found that to obtain a location
of safety for non-combatants It will
be necessary to remove them some dis-
tance from the town. A location has
been found at Tlahualllo, about four
or five miles from Torreon and the
site has been approved by military ex-
perts. It is estimated tliat at least
twenty-four hours' time will be re-
quired to transfer the inhabitants to
this place, but from the leisurely mea-
ner in which the campaign is develop-
ing it is thought there will be ample
notice of a general engagement.
At the instance of the British em-
bassy, the state department has inter-
ested itself In William Benton, the
English ranch owner and miner said
to have been imprisoned by General
Villa for making disrespectful remarks
about him. Instructions have been
telegraphed to American Consul Ed
Auetln Cunningham, who represent*
several Texas newepapers In Wishing-
ton snd also Is a member of the Lewis-
ville Couri er-Joum al'e etaff In tho
national capital, wante to be a oow-
greeeman-at-large from Texaa He Is
a native of that etate and a warm ad-
mirer of Preeldent Wilson.
HAVY AVAITOH DROPS TO OEATH
GOVERNMENT LOSES 15TH OFFI-
CER BY AEROPLANE ACCIDENT.
After An Unexplained Accident Which
Caueed Him To Loee Control of
Hie Machine at Peneacola.
Pensacola, Fia.—Lieutenant J. McC.
Murray, attached to the United States
naval aviation corps, station here, fell
800 feet with his biplane into Penea-
cola Bay and was killed. His body
was found 100 yards from the spot
where the machine struck the water.
The cause of the accident has not
been determined.
Lieutenant Murray, with three other
airmen, had been executing maneu-
vers over the bay. Scores of specta-
tors saw his evolutions. Finally he
flew toward the shore, and while a
short distance out over the bay and
at his greatest elevation they saw the
machine suddenly dip. They were
under the impression the airman would
quickly plane upward. Instead, the
nose of the aeroplane was further de-
' fleeted downward and plunged with
increasing velocity. They knew that
- - _ I Murrav had lost control of his craft
wards at Juarez to investigate the ^nd ,n an in8tant they gaw it and Its
case and make proper representations lQt Btrlke the water. From the top
to General Villa to obtain the release , Qf a talJ building in Pensacola, the
of Benton. weather observer saw the accident. Ho
....... nal. ... | . telephoned to the aviation station and
REPORT THE MRICIITIWI BILL | to the boats in the harbor. Within a
~ I few minutes the rescuers were at
Increase of Nearly a Million Over Last haQ(] and had taken Lieutenant Mur-
Vllla Band Will Come.
Fresh from the sandy stretches of
mesquite and cactus along the Rio
Grande the military band of General
Pancho Villa. Mexico's constitutional-
ist leader, will come to Oklahoma City
during the first week In March to as-
sist In the celebration attending the
Panhandle-Southwestern Cattlemen's
convention. Incidentally, they will he
a factor In the delegation eent here by
El Paso In an effort to capture the
[convention for 1116.
Valid Reason For 8enton Execution.
Washington.—President Wilson and
Secretary Bryan conferred briefly on
the Mexican situation. No announce-
ments were made after the conference
but it is understood the report on the
execution at Juarez of William S. Ben-
ton la awaited before the view of this
government toward the incident !•
made known.
The details of the execution are not
In the handa of the sUte department
officials but are being gathered rapidly.
It Is generally admitted that the case
htngee largely on whether or not Ben-
ton went to General Villa's headquart-
ers armed. That he was high tempered
and had previous difficulties with con-
stitutionalist* is known, but on the
•ingle fact of whether he had a re-
volver when he accosted Villa depend!
to a great extent judgment of the
whole affair Benton's friends denied
he carried weapons.
Woman Aasassinated at El Reno.
El Reno.—For tne first time in two
weeks Mrs. Susie Doss failed to at-
tend the union revival services being
conducted here by Lincoln McConneli.
and shortly after 10 o'clock she was
found dead in her home with a bullet
in her head by C. E. Doss, husband,
who Is a clerk in the Rock Island
division offices. Doss was arrested,
charged with tbe killing.
Mrs. Doss was stttlng in a rocking
chair In the home between 9 and 10
o'clock, reading a Bible, when a bul-
let crashed through the screen and
glass doors and struck her just behind
the right ear. It went almost through
the head, breaking the skull on the
opposite side. A 10-year-old daughter,
asleep in another room, was not awak-
ened by the shot.
That, after working during the even-
ing in his office. Doss Went home and
found his wife murdered was the story
he told when he nroused neighbors an
hour later He apparently was grief
Year's Appropriation
Washington.—Chairman Lever of
the house committe on agriculture
completed and reported to the house
the annual agricultural appropriation.
It aggregates $18,947,000 exclusive of
permanent appropriations, an increase
of $960,000 over last year's total.
The bill is accompanied by the most
comprehensive report ever submitted
by the committee.
Many radical changes are proposed,
including regulation of the weather
bureau and preparation by the secre-
tary of agriculture of a plan for the
reorganization and systematizing of
department work. The report sets
forth that the department is now "de-
veloped to a point where its present
system of bureau organiza tion has be-
come cumbersome and is not as effi-
cient as it should be." The bill con
templates that existing bureaus should
be rearranged to cover five or six main
lines of Work, "such as the research
rural organization, state . elations,
weather and forest services.
To Encourage Reclamat on.
The bill appropriates $25,000 to en-
courage agricultural developmeat of
the government reclamation projects
ray's floating body from the water:
About 100 yards away was the crushed
aeroplane minus the engine which had
been torn loose and had gone to tho
bottom. The wreckage waa towed to
shore and the body of the dead avia-
tor given into the care of friends.
While the navy has lost only two of
its airmen, thirteen army officers have
been killed in accidents since aviation
became a branch of the military serv-
ile a few years ago.
stricken. Officers were summoned, an throUgh demonstrations and adviie to
investigation started and Doss was : gettler8 An increase of $25,000 over
arrested. the present appropriationa Is provided
Rev. Lincoln McConneli. who has CCK,p€ralloI1 with states in the pro-
been conducting a revival here went tecUon from fire Qf the rorested water-
to Mr. Doss and had a long talk with , |heda ^ navlgabi* streams, which are
him and McConneli announced at the , federa,
revival that the man had confessed. The eiaborate Mount Weather obser
The officers found his guna 41 Colts Tat|OQ 8Ution ln the Blue Ridge moun-
in the basement of the Rock >«land U(M of Virginia, which has cost since
building where Mr. Doss office waa ^ appTOlimate,y 1493.OOO. would vir
located andthis together with tho | tn>lly ^ abollahMl by the bill, the
other bits Of evidence that had been . a_tcujture being em
Picked up during to 25RLe^I, «
strong chain of ^rtinary" observation station, to cost
de0Cel Vh^hr^al not exceeding $1,000 . year. The com
were on the righr trai. mlttee and tbe department hold that
Dosa waa taken out of town and "J111 . Ktf n+rrimA |U , U1 "-0 -—"
It is not known where be is. Consid- the three weeks ago. He was taken to •
MORE LIRCMM IR MISSISSIPPI
Committee Holds Up Train and Takes
Negro From the Sheriff.
Hernando. Miss—Stopping sn Illi-
nois Central passenger train a mob of
about fifty masked men held paa-
sengers and members of the train
crew at bay under cover of revolvera
while they forced Sheriff E. F. Nichols
of DeSoto county to turn over to them
Johnson McGuirk and Bill Phillips,
negroes, accused of wounding J. K.
Ingram, a wealthy mill owner, near
Bvhalia. Miss., several weeks ago. Mc-
Guirk was hanged from a railroad
trestle and Phillip1* restored to the
custody of the sheriff.
When the sheriff and his two pris-
oners disembarked the mob permitted
the train to proceed while they
marched the handcuffed negro®* to
the trestle. Preparations wers being
made to lynch both, but the pleadings
of the sheriff in behalf of Phillips,
sgainst whom it is stated the evidence
is alight, was effective and he was
returned to Nichols. With little eer
emony a rope was placed around Mo
Gulrk's neck and he wss forced to
leap from tbe bridge. The mob then
dieperaed and Nichols came to Hot
nando aboard a later train with bis
prisoner. . _
Ingram was shot from smbnsft
e«ble talk of lynching «s hoa* and on at Mount Weather «n be bettor ^ ^tal where he still Is I.
the sheriff didn't care to take any I performed In the western part of the| _ „^..rloiia condition.
chances.
country.
a precarious condition.
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