The Okemah Ledger. (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 7, 1912 Page: 6 of 10
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OKLAHOMASTATE
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MEW MEMBERS ORGANIZE STATE
EDUCATIONAL BOARD
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SECRETARYJUIFFMAN OUT
Several Old Members Join With New
in Getting Board Into Working
Order— Refuse to Recognize
Wilson’s Stand '
Oklahoma City
Members of the Board of Education
recently appointed by Gov Cruce act-
ing with members who have decided
to recognize the stand taken by State
" Superintendent Wilson in the contro-
versy with the Governor met and per-
fected organization and when denied
the Use of the board’s rooms or access
to the records entered an order re-
moving from office Leslie T Huffman
the board’s secretary J F Warren of
Oklahoma City one of the members
was elected temporary secretary and
W E Eowsey of Muskogee another
member neither of whom has been in-
' volved in the controversy was elected
vice-chairman with authority ' equal
v with that of State Superintendent Wil-
son to call meetings of the board
The meeting was held upon the ad-
I vice of Attorney General West follow-
' lug action of the Oklahoma county dis-
: trict court in declining to issue an
injunction against the governor’s ap-
pointees If the organisation which
: includes Mr Rowsey Mr Warren W
A Brandenburg and D I Johnston oi
Oklahoma City I L Cain of Musko-
gee and Rev C C Welth of Ardmore
stands State Superintendent Wilson
is left with only the removed members
of the board supporting his position
Accompanied by Attorney General
West the new board celled at the
board’s offices in the Mercantile Build-
ing but found them locked and were
told that the keys were not there
- Returning to the attorney general's
office notice was served at the office
of the state superintendent and secre-
tary Huffman that a meeting would
be held In the afternoon
State Superintendent Wilscj was
absent from the city and Secretary
Huffman did not appear Then a reso-
1 lution was Voted making a change ol
secretaries Notice was served upon
all state departments to recognize nc
action of tne old board of education
and the state board of - affairs an-
nounced that it would not accept requi-
sitions v approved by Superintendent
Wilson unless he dfd bo as chairman
of the new board All laws rules and
regulations of the old board were re-
pealed and Johnston Warren and
Brp deri burg were delegated to draft
"'naw ohes - -
Notice was sent to Superintendent
Wilson advising that Secretary Huff-
man had been dropped and to appoint
a new secretary but only by approval
of the organization
All regular meetings of tbe board
will be held on the second Tuesday oi
each month
The first business affecting the
schools was to allow requisitions for
supplies for one of tbe new dormitories
at the State Home at Pryor Creek
r
' The action -of Gov Cruce in remov-
ing Scott Glenn C F Tayes and Rob-
ert Dunlop from the state board ol
education was sustained by Judge
Geo W Clark In the district court
when he vacated the temporary in-
junction granted at the request of the
old hoard appointed by the chief exe-
cutlve from taking their seats The
' opinion of Judge Clark however
stated' that the old members might
have some rights hut they could not
be raised by injunction and that the
proper course would he the Insti-
tution of quo warranto proceedings tc
test the right of the new members tc
the offices
State Treasurer Dunlop has issued a
call for November 1 and wil pay all
warrants drawn against the appropria-
tions for the’ fiscal year ending June
30 1912 The last call for these war-
rants was Issued October 15 and in-
cluded register numbers from 2000C
to 2270L which amounted to $21493416
and accrued interest to the amount oi
$522450 making a total of $22015866
The call issued for November 1 will
Include the entire amount of warrants
drawn against these appropriations and
all warrants drawn agains the 1911-
1912 appropriations from that time on
111 be cashed on presentation at the
state treasurer’s offllce At this time
warrants have been drawn against ap-
propriations for the fiscal year end-
ing June 30 1913 and registered in
the treasurers office to No 6743
amounting to $71959474 Of these
current warrants the state treasurer
called for payment on October 15 from
No 1 to No ' 1200 inclusive' which
amounted to $20013684 Tbs leaves
current warrants outstanding yet un-
called to the amount of $51945890 all
of which hear date of September 1 or
later All warrants will be paid in
cash hereafter
The prison farm at tbe Granite re-
formatory will be made a state demon-
stration farm for the growing of cot-
ton as a result of a conference be-
tween Clyde Reed warden of the in-
stitution and G T Bryan president of
tbe state board of agriculture Presi-
dent Bryan will appoint a cotton ex-
pert from his department to supervise
the work which will be done by pris-
oners It is also planned to erect a
gin for ginning only the cotton raised
on the prison farm Warden Reed had
1000 acres of cotton last year and
plans to have more next year -
TO HAVE CONNECTION
WITH CATTLE COUNTRY
Forty-Mile ‘ Extension of the Texas
Plains Line Is Announced By
Vice President Sommer
Oklahoma City
It is now assured that Oklahoma
City will have direct traffic connection
at an early date with ’ the Staked
Plains cattle and farming country of
Texas as far west as the western line
of Motley county Vice President
Charles H Sommer of St Louis an-
nounced that the Quanah Acme & Pa-
cific railroad — a Frisco connection —
will be extended forty miles west from
the Paducah Texas terminus at once
The preliminary location ’ work has
been completed and contracts for the
grading and track laying work will be
let at once from Quanah Texas --
Ms Sommers announces that the
line will be completed and placed in
operation by December This is a dis-
tance of eighteen miles t west of Pa-
ducah the present terminus Con-
struction work on this section Is being
rushed In order that the company
may be prepared to participate in this
season’s cotton movement which Is
expected to be the largest in its his-
tory State Fire Marshal Hammond’s re-
port to Perry A Ballard state insur-
ance commissioner filed Saturday
shQws that the total fire waste in the
state for the month of October was
$121563 and that of' this loss $49146
was caused by carelessness The waste
for the month showed a decrease from
that of September of about $6000
- In his report ’ Captain Hammond
says:
"It is evident that the fire prevention
day as proclaimed by overner Cruce
had the desired effect in causing a gen-
eral clean-up over the state and by so
doing it has played a large part In
making the large reduction in the
state’s fire loss Removing trash and
rubbish from a building or premises is
one of the best steps that can he taken
to reduce a fire hazard -"If
each city and town in the state
would have a general ‘clean-up’ day
each month the reduction of the fire
waste of this state would be marvelous
and this could be done without ex-
pense and with the loss of but a few
minutes time from the daily business”
State Game Warden John B Doolin
is hopeful of securing for the collec-
tion of mounted birds and game anl-
malB which now adorns his offices the
mounted remains of “Old Statehood”
the eagle from whose wing was taken
the quill used by President Roosevelt
In signing the bill which admitted Ok-
lahoma to statehood The eagle is
now in the possession of "Dad” Nall
of Alva who prizes It very highly
but realizes that it would he given
better care as a part of the game
warden’s collection than he is now
able to give it
"
Tiie Oklahoma County Truck Grow-
ers association will make an effort to
Induce all members to purchase seed
of uniform variety for sowing’ during
the coming season The object is to
enable the association to ship out com-
plete carloads of the game variety of
products instead of being compelled to
ship mixed carloads as in the past
As a result of the increased tax
levy made last year to prevent the
recurrence of the deficits of previous
years State Treasurer Dunlop now
has on hand with the final remit-
tances from several counties not made
a sufficient balance to pay every war-
rant Issued against appropriations for
the fiscal year of 1912 ending June
30 last '
Assistant Attorney General Charles
Moore went to Purcell to appear for
the state board of agriculture In a
hearing before Judge McMillan on a
mandamus suit recently brought to
compel the sheriff of Garvin coutny to
dip certain cattl'e which the owners
themselves had refused to dip -
That Wanrikais to rhave another
railroad is now an assured fact for a
corps of surveyors starting at Ard-
more Okla are now at work This
line when completed will be one of
the best lines of railroad In the state
it being the connecting line between
the Frisco and Santa Fe on the east
to the Frisco and Rock Island on the
west and will traverse a scope of
country that has been considered by
many railroad companies for several
The October crop report of the state
board of agriculture shows that the
cotton prospect compared with the
normal yield Is hut 719 per cent The
growing condition Is not given Boll
weevil has destroyed 15 per cent of
the normal yield
Rt Rev Sidney C Partridge D D
formerly a bishop and missionary to
Japan how bishop of the Episcopal
diocese of Kansas City has arrived
in Oklahoma City and is the guest of
Bishop Francis K Brooke of the Ok-
lahoma diocese and while here will
deliver a number of lectures
Warden Clyde Reed of the state re-
formatory at Granite sent out 100 of
his best men to pick cotton in tbe
fields of the farmers within a radius
of five to seven miles of the institu-
tion with the result that many bales
of the product were gathered that
would 'have been lost through the
shortage of help The farmers al-
lowed the prisoners $1 perl hundred
for their work and the warden al-
lowed the latter to fietain a portion of
this turning the rest Into the fundi
of the Institution
“SUNNY JIM”
SHERMAN DEAD
VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES PASSES AWAY '
DUE TO B RIGHT’S DISEASE
Unable to Rally From Attack of Urae-
mic Polsorw-Death Comes
As Blow to Family
- ’ and Frlende
Utica N Y— After a long Illness
James S Sherman vice-president of
the United States died at his' home
here Wednesday night at 9 : 42 of urae-
mic poison' caused by Bright’s dis-
ease -
Soon after Mr Sherman's death’ Dr
Fayette H Peck the attending phy-
sician issued the following statement:
"The vice-president died at 9:42
p m without regaining consciousness
for a moment He was very quiet He
died in the presence of his wife his
brothers and sister his two brotners
his three sons and their wives Ho
had been ’ entirely unconscious since
7 o’clock when he had a perold of
partial consciousness lasting for about
fifteen minutes ' I
“He died in an uraemic comatose
of Bright’s disease and arterio scler-
osis” -
Mrs Sherman bore up hravply under
the shock of her husband’s death as
also did tho other members of the
faftilly Although it was said at the
house that the hopelessness cf Mr
Sherman's fight against death had
been realized since Friday the blow
nevertheless was a crushing one
Mr Sherman was regarded as the
first citizen of the city and all dif-
ferences growing out of politics died
with him
Vice President Sherman was horn in
Utica on October 24 1855 He was
married in 1885 to Carrie Babcock ill
East Oraiige They have thres sons
Sherill Richard U and Thomas M
MADDENED FARMER
SLAYS ENTIRE FAMILY
Denied Permission to See Wife Roehr
Kills Her Father Mother and
Grandmother
f Sheboygan Wis— Alvin Rohr ' a
young farmer of Plymouth shot and
killed his father-in-law Philip J Ott
Mrs Ott and Mrs Ott’s father Fred
Haut 80 Roehr had been refused
permission to see his wife from whom
he lived apart
Roehr’s body was found this after-
noon hanging to a tree in the woods
about a quarter of a mile from the
scene of the tragedy It is supposed
'that the assassin fearing summary ac-
tion at the hands of a posse commit-
ted suicide
Mrs Roehr and her baby escaped
by hiding for three hours About a
year and a half ago Roehr married
Ott’s daughter They did not get
along peaceably and Mrs Roehr some
time ago took her six -months old
baby and returned to her father’s
house Just across the road She then
started a suit for divorce Roehr
started suit for the recovery of the
child but failed
Rob and Burn Depot
Paris Tex— After ransacking 4 the
Texas Midland railroad depot at
Cooper near here burglars set fire
to the station to cover their tracks
Three carloads of merchandise i and
one car of cotton was destroyed caus-
Ing a loss of’ $3500 There Is no
clue to the robbers
Bird Protection Costly
New York— The sum of $60000 was
spent by the National Association of
Audubon societies this year for bird
protection t
all living and in business in Utica
Tbe vice-president was an Elk a trus-
tee of Hamilton college a member of
the Christ Reformed church a mem-
ber of many clubs and a business
man of wide interests
- Washington — News-or Vice i rtoi-
dent Sherman’s death though it had
been expected hourly was received
with profound sorrow in official Wash-
ington 1 At the capital where every
attache considered him a friend in
the government departments where he
was a frequent visitor among the cab-'
Inet officers and in the diplomatic
corps where he had 1 many close
friends the announcement will cause
genuine regret -
The vice president’s death leaves the
present senate without any regular
presiding officer The late Senator
Frye’s place as president pro tem
never has been filled Neither Sena-
tor Gallagher the candidate of the
regular republicans nor Senator Ba-
con the candidate of tho democrats
has been able to command the neces-
sary vote ' ' Progressive republicans
have prevented an election Mean-
while during the vice president’s sev-
eral months’ absence the senate has
been presided over by Senators Gal-
linger and Bacon alternately by com-
mon agreement I
According to the constitution the
succession to the vice presidency now
goes to Secretary Knox of the state
department who also figures - as a
presidential possibility should the elec-
tion go into the house - A
’ Mr Sherman was the fifth vice pres-
ident whose death in office shocked
the nation ' William R King died
during Pierce’s administration Vice-
President Wilson during that : of
Grant Vice President Hendricks dur-
ing that of Cleveland ana Vice Presi-
dent Hobart during McKinley's first
term '
Surgeon-General O’Reilly is Dead
Washington — Major General Robert
Maltlahd O’Reilly former surgeon
general of the United States army per-
sonal physician and Intimate friend of
President Cleveland died here of urae-
mic poisoning eneral O’Reilly who
bad been ill for some time was born
la Philadelphia in 1845 and partici-
pated in many of the stirring events
of the nation's military history in the
last half century -
MRS GROVER CLEVELAND
TO WED PRINCETON PROF
Wife of Former President Announces
Engagement to Prominent
Educator
Princeton N J— Mrs Grover Cleve-
land announces here engagement to
Thomas Joseph Preston professor of
archaeology and history of arts at
Wells college The date of the map
riage is not "yet determined hut will
be announced later
Mrs Cleveland is a graduate ol
Wells college and has been a trustee
of that institution since 1887 ‘
Her wedding to President Grover
Clevelandrwhtch took place in the ex-
ecutive mansion during his first ad-
ministration was one of the notable
events of the White House
Two Are Drowned' ?
Marietta 0—Ward Boaz of Olean
N Y and an 'unidentifled companion
were drowned in the Ohi river wires
a canoe in which they were making
a cruise from New York state to New
Orleans was carried over the falls at
Kerr's Island The bodies have not
been discovered '
911000 for Husbamf’s Death '
Fort Smith Ark— Mrs Essie Pi
Caver secured a judgment of 911000
tn the circuit court here against the
Midland Valley railroad for the death
of her husband a brakeman who was
killed at Nelagony Okla six months
ago
Steals Socks Gets Eight Years
Crawfordsville Ind — For the theft
of one pair or socks John Williams a
professional tramp was taken to Mich-
igan City prison to serve from one to
eight years
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Gaston, O. C. The Okemah Ledger. (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 7, 1912, newspaper, November 7, 1912; Okamah, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1860907/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.