Latimer County Democrat (Wilburton, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 29, 1914 Page: 1 of 12
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'A Continuous Publication of the Wilburton Gazette
Vol 15 No 27
WILBURTON OKLAHOMA THURSDAY JANUARY 29 1914
Fifteenth Year
WILBURTON TEAM WON
DEBATE FRIDAY NIGHT
The debate between Wilbur-
ton and Hartshorne High School
teams was held at the High
School Auditorium Friday even-
ing 'Wilburton won but not
with hands down for the visi-
tors who were here with a half
hundred noisy supporters put
up a heroic fight and at times it
looked like “nip and tqck”
The subject was a live quo
One that is to-day an all absorb-
ing issue in the min is of law
makers and statesmen “Resolv-
ed that the Oklahoma Legisla-
ture should bo reduced to a tive There was a shriek of
single branch of twentv-five PP oval from the Wilburton
members to be paid a fixed sai-' crowd but the judge waved his
ary and to be in continuous ses- band and there was silence
sion or at such times as would The s cond read Affirmative
enable them to perform the Another shriek of approval for
duties of the Legislature” For that meant victory for Wilbur-
the reasons that the speakers ton The thiid judge voted for
handled so well the subject and the Negative
demonstrated so thorough a ! The home team will meet
knowledge of same we intended ether Stigleror Checotah within
to give a full review of each ar- the next few days and the win-
gument but for the reason that ner 'n is contest will meet the
this same subject is to be di ' champions of the other Eastern
cussed again with rival schools District at which time the team
we shall withhold a detailed ac-! t° participate in the state contest
count of the discussion will be so chosen Here is hop-
The subject was no school ng our boys will come out on
boyS’Nsubjcct neither was k the °ier s'e The lest ditch
’ handled in school boy fashion ! 2 Judges were: Wm Gay
but on the order of well inform- Mendeslor J II Ix&cb Red
ed legislators and if we know Oak and Supt McKelve of
good hard-wood walnut limber 1 oteau
when we see it those young me u The debaters were: Affirma-
liuve in them the making of i live F red Sorrels Lee Bramlett
characters who- will be heard j Edwin Watkins of Wilburton
from on tomorrow j Negative: Floyd Keller Joe
Judge P S Jones presided and j Brown Homer Hefley of Harts-
kept time on the hoys Each ! borne
' OFFICERS HOLD OVER
Oklahoma Ctv Jan 25 -in a
special election held recently by
the State Federation of Labor
the president secretary-treai-urer
and the members of the
executive board will hold office
until August 1915
FRISCO OFFICERS
SUED FOR MILLIONS
St Louis Jan 21— Suit to re-
cover more than fourteen million
dollars was filed in the United
States district court here today1
against ten men who were diree-
tor3 of the St Louis & San Fran-
cisco railroad in 199 1 :
The suit was iilod by attorneys
representing the receivers and'
the action was brought in accor-
dance with a recommendation
of Walter 11 Sanborn
judge before whom the
ership proceedings were brought
last May
MAY OIL STREETS
‘ Quite a few business men are
discussing (ho question ot oiling
the streets of Wilburton instead
of sprinkling with water as pre-
viously practiced U is stated
that oil has proved more satis-
factory where used and when
mixed properly with asphalt is
not far behind asphalt paving in
point of service It is reported
that the matter may come up at
the next council meeting
To Diicuu Need of Working-
men at Joint Meeting in Ok
lahoma City on Februay
9 1011
Oklahoma City Jan 126— The
Oklahoma Joint Legislative
Board comprising the executive
committee of the Oklahoma State
Federation of Labor the Order
Tatum rendered a piano solo °f Rahway Conductors Brother- q Ok by a small mob of
which was appreciated by the hood of Locomotive Firemen
audience When the sealed en- Rr°Therhood of Railway Train-
velopes had been handed to the men Miners District No 21
Judge he exacted of the army of Carpenters State Council and
rooters that no cheering would Farmers Union have been called
speaker had ten minutes in main
address and five in rebuttal At
the conclusion Judge Jones re-
quested the Judges to send up
their decision during the pre-
paration of which Miss Estelle
be allowed during the reading of i
the decisions and they promised i
to obey The first read: “Affirm-1
IMPORTANT DECISION
Oklahoma City Jan 25— One
of the most important decisions
ever banded down in Oklahoma
with regard to union labor was
one by Judge Phil D Brewer of
the supreme court commission
last week This decision invol-
ved the right of members of la-
bor unions in refusing to work
with nonunion men and not be-
ing liable therefor Judge Brew-
er in making the decision stated
in part: “Any man in the ab-
sence of a contract to work a
definite time for any reason
If his wages are not satisfactory
bis hours too long his work too
hard his employer or his em-
ployment uncongenial or hi3 co-
laborers objectionable h's right
to quit is absolute What an in-
dividual may do a nurnber of
cu‘cu’t' his co-laborers may join him in
reeeiv- providing the thing to be
! dane is lawful”
SPY LOCAL EYPELLED
Indianpolis Ind Jan 24— On
charges that it was an organiza-
tion maintained by a detective
agency solely for the purpose of
getting a spy into the conven
tion local' union No 979 of Poca-
hontas W Va was expelled by
the convention of the United
Mine Workers of America here
Friday M D Whitesell the
delegate accredited to the union
was not in the convention hall
when the action was taken
LEGISLATIVE BOARD TO MEET
T° meet in joint session in Okla-
homa City on February 9 10 and
H- f
separately and transact its pri-!
vate business and the joint
meeting will begin on the 10th
Lack of Hydrant Water Causes j
Hardships in Girard
Girard Kan Jan 24— The
water in the municipal well still
is hot standing at the same de-
gree of 119 The situation re-
mains unchanged A big fan
has been kept going to keep the
pump shaft cool enough for the
workmen to handle while placing
new rubber valves The lack
of water in hydrants was a
source of inconveniences today
owing to the supply in shallow
cisterns tube and other recepta-
cles being used up
Eight days ago the water in
the municipal well turned warm
and ‘gradually became so hot
thatit put thNeo P0Un7ha°sUtbeeUn
commission
able to explain the strange
nomena
phe-
OLDEST TOWN ON
THE PLANET
At last we are set down in the
midst of Damascus a city that
can claim life without a break
from its founding back in the
dim dawn of the world’s history
When Abraham crossed the
desert from Haran 4000 years
ago this city was standing (Sea
Gen xiv 15 and xv 20) She
dates back' to the time of the
Pharahos in Egypt in fact she
was old when Greece and Rome
were stripplings in years Rome
may be termed the “Eternal
City" but Damascus is twice as
old and though her streets have
run red with blood of battles
and rapine many times she has
not been overthrown
“Babaylon is a heap in the des-
ert and Tyre a ruin on the shore”
but Damascus remains
Was there ever such a place to
see the nations of the earth pa-
rading together? Here in the
market place are motley crowds
of Peresians Moors Afgans In-
dians Egyptians Sudanese
Jews Bedouins Druses Turks
Europeans The streets so crook-
ed so narrow so dirty so full of
life with that stgmge spell of
the desert upon them! The resi
dences as seen -from the street
are ugly and disapointing
enough yet like old barns and
tumble-down mills at home are
fascinating and picturesque—
Christian Herald
NEGRO LYNCHED AT
PURCELL BY MOB OF 70
ojn
to have gone( from Oklahoma
City in automobiles According
ta information from several
sources a party of six automo-
biles containing about twenty-
men most of whom are believed
fi ye thirty men left Oklahoma
City aUl o’clock Monday nigfct
'on auto at a time going to the
outskirts of the city where they
met No identification of the
men has been1 established
As the auto passed through
Norman it issaidthat the crowd
enlarged and by the time
Purcell where the negro was
confined in jail was reached the
crowd numbered about seventy
men Men with drawn revolvers
rushed on the McClain county
REBEL CAMPAIGNS
IN SOUTH PLANNED
Difficult Problems Face Villa’s
Army After Fall Of Torreon
Chihuahua Mexico Jan 26—
What will be the fortune of Gen-
eral Francisco Villa’s army of
15000 or more rebels when they
pass south of Torreon into the
“r 1 central states of Mexico received 1
01 1 1 i u
1 ferious consideration by the re-
bel leaders Sunday That the
rebels will take Torreon they
have every confidence although f Washington Jan 26— The so-
General Refugio Velasco the called red light bill of Senator
federal commander is expected Kenyon already passed by the
to make every effort to check the senate and proposing to elimin-
revolutionists there ! ate the segregated district in the
But what will happen after the capital by injunction was pass-
defeat of the Torreon federal 1 e(j by the house Monday without
garrison should they be defeat- amendment or opposition
ed is not so clearly defined in
the mind of General Villa
Heretofore the activities of
General Villa’s army have been
confined chiefly to what was re-
garded as rebeL territory and re-
bel victories have been achieved
against federate cut off from
communication and their bases
of supplies Unlimited supplies
were at the service of the rebels
in the south
BOXING BOUT
W J Meek of Hartford Ark
and James Spi (Spagetti) of Wil-
burton' intertained local fight
fans at the Royce play house
Monday evening in a three round
boxing match
Meek is slender and tall Spi
is short and fat It appeared at
the first that the bout would be
fast and classy but in the third
round Jeff (Spi) proved lacking
in staying qualities and Mut
(Meeks) soon secured a decision
The gate receipts totaled $89
a portion of which goes to the
Colorado strike fund Billie
Brandenburg was referee and
W A Davis of Hartford and
J no Manning seconds
jail and commanded the jailer to
unlock the doors 0 W Mor-
gan jailer could do nothing but
unlock the doors and allow the
crowd to enter the jail The
McClain county sheriff is said to
have been at home asleep
Dickerson was dragged from
his cell and placed in an automo-
bile The crowd then started
north At a point about two and
onehalf miles southeast of Noble
the party was delayed by auto-
mobile trouble While they
waited there a rope was thrown
over a limb of a big tree which
stands beside the road Dicker-
son begging for his life was
jerked from the ground by the
neck by a dqzen strong arms and
as his body swung into the a'r
the crowd backed away from the
tree and about 200 shots were
fired into his writhing body
The mob then dispersed quietly
leaving the body swinging to
the tree
FURMAN’S CON-
DITION UNCHANGED
The condition of Judge Henry
M Furman of the criminal court
of appeals was unchanged He
does not seem to be suffering as
y did Saturday and Sun lay
and he rests better His condi-'
tions is yet considered danger-
ous however
RED LIGHT BILL
“You may not do away with
concubines and libertines” de-
clared Representative Prouty of
Iowa in urging the bill “but you
can prevent vice flaunting itself
in the face of every man who
walks down the streets of a city
I We hope to do away with the
j temptations continually in the
! way 0f both men and women”
The bill framed by Senator
Kenyon and modeled after an
Iowa law provides that the use
of any property in the District
of Columbia for immoral pur-
poses may be enjoined
There i3 nothing that has done
so much to corrupt American
cities” said Mr Prouty during
the debate “as the winking at
the laws affecting these places
Every commission that has ex-
amined into the subject in every
important city says this winking
at the law lies at the very foun-
dation of all or nearly all of the
graft schemes that have been
devised by the police force to
get money”
Republican Leader Mann join-
edJn favor of the bill which now
goes to the president for his signature
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