Okmulgee Republican (Okmulgee, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 28, 1911 Page: 3 of 4
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Guayaquil Ecquador Dec 88—
' Emilia Estrada president of the re-
public of Ecuador died here suddenly
at midnight
i President Estrada was elected to
office on January 11 1911 and was
Inaugurated on September 1 He was
taken seriously 111 on the 18th of the
same month and went to Quleto to re
' cuperate During the sojourn there
plot to assassinate him was discov-
ered and several conspirators were ar-
rested Instead of benefitting by his
stay at Quito the president returned
to Guayaquil on November 28 In a
serious condition and Francisco An-
- drado Marla president of the chamber
of deputies assumed temporary
charge of the executive office
-1 President Estrada was 65 years old
and though be had ben ill for several
i months he felt better on Thursday
'and spent the entire day attending to
i official matters At midnight be suf-
: fered a relapse and suddenly expired
the cause of his death being a compll-
i cation of diseases affecting the heart
and kidneys
The funeral was held this after-
noon
GIRL’S ROOMMATE
' WILL LAKE STAND
y Boston Dec 22 — Miss Luclle Zelg-
ler room mate of Avis Ldnnell at the
was held' In 3600 bond
l Y W C
Friday as a witness in the trial of the
Rev Clarence V T Rlcheson charged
£ with the murder of Mss LlnnelL
£ Although Rcheson’s counsel W1F
Ham A Morse after visiting hie silent
j n Jail Friday said he appeared very
i weak Dr Howard A Latbrop who
performed the operation on the pris-
oner after Rcheaon had mutilated him-
self Wednesday said that the patient
v v was "getting along as well as could
£ be expected under the circumstances"
and that unless unforeseen compllca-
j tlons developed he should be able to
J attend the trial on January 15
REYES REPORTED AT : v
HEAD Of U1GE ARLIT
Monterey Mex Dec 22 — That Gen-
eral Bernardo Reyes Is now at the
head of an organized rebel force num-
bering approximately 400 men la a re-
port brought here today from the
state of Tamulptas His work of re-
cruiting and organizing 1 said to be
progressing satisfactorily and friends
of the general believe it will be but
a few days until he strikes a blow that
will remove all doubt as to his where-
abouts and Intentions
Total Ignorance concerning Reyes
movements since he was sighted on
the Vaquera ranch Just across the
state line in Tamulplas Wednesday Is
reported at army headquarters Gen-
eral Gerenmo Trevino has scattered
troops throughout the dlstiict about
Linares and the area of hunt has been
extended but none has reported the
picking up of the trail General Tre-
vino deubts the story that Reyes has
secured a following
- BUYS MUCH CEMENT
A very satisfactory story came
from Ada this week Mr C H Kel-
logg was down there on business and
while there he learned from tLe man-
agement that the cement factory at
that place had Just recently closed a
contract with the M O & Q road for
the cement necessary on the one hun-
dred miles of road between Honryetta
and Oklahoma City
This coming as It does on the heels
of all the other portents does away
with any lingering doubt as to early
and rapid work on the line We are
not Informed as to the amount of ce-
ment specified In the contract but the
figures would no doubt look large If
given It Is now nearing the first
of the year and all the winter we have
will come within the next ninety days
While the construction work Is ex-
pected to begin within some thirty or
‘ forty days the real work of building
the road will be done aftjl the expira-
tion of the frozen grounn - oerlod of
January aid February— HryetU
Free Lance
With Brady and Galbreath In Tulsa
and Haskell and Owen In Muskogee
the democracy of eastern Oklahoma
Is kept very busy — In fact about the
busiest of any organization on the
reservation
The national democratic convention
will probably be put off until after
June 18 in order to pick up what Is
left
©OETY
TELEPHONE 181
On of the first aad merriest Yule-
Ude events was the meeting of the
Current Topics club at the home of
Mr and Mrs M O Clark last evening
The young ladles had planned -a
Christmas pie with gifts Inside but
Mrs Clark and Santa Claus thought
differently Bo when the party ar-
rived they found a prety red stock-
ing for each one hung over the man-
tie In true Christmas style and fuU
to overflowing with gifts and sweets
Another surprise was a real pie— an
immense one— served with coffee at
the close of the evening The house
was lovely with Its holiday decora-
tions and the club voted thro cheers
for Mrs Clark and Miss Norvell for
the -delightful hoepitallty
Mr and Mrs N O Hopkins sr
and daughters Misses Elisabeth aad
Male arrived this morning from
Taiko Mo to spend the holidays with
their son and brother Prof N O Hop-
kins Jr of this city After the hol-
idays they will go to Hot Springs
Ark where they will spend the win-
ter Miss Chrystal Beider arrived Thurs-
day from Toledo Ohio where she has
position as stenographer She will
visit relatives and friends here dur-
ing the holiday
Judge J W Childers returned yes-
terday from Oklahoma City He was
acompanled home by his daughter
Miss Wodenla who will spend the
holidays herei
Mr and Mrs W B Bell Miss Rena
Hampton John Hossack and 1 W
Hampton will go to Okemah tomorrow
where they will spend Christmas
Mrs Mllroy arrived this - morning
from Bellefontalne Ohio to spend the
holidays with her sons Dr J A Mll-
roy and Dr Fred Mllroy
Miss Sadie Hilton of Muskogee will
arrive tomorrow to be the gueet of
Mrs William H Mosley during the
holidays
Li B Norton went to Kansas City
last evening to spend Christmas with
his parents Mr aad Mrs Jamas Nor-
ton Miss Gladys Beider Will arrive to-
morrow from Meade Kansas to spend
the holldeys with her parents
Crawford Cameron returned today
rrom Norman Okla to spend tho
holdlays with his parents
Don and Bvan Cameron will spend
the holldeys with their parents Rev
and Mrs E D Cameron
Mrs Elvira Brock will go to Still-
water Okla toporrow to spend!
Christmas with relatives
Fowler Graham will leave tonight
for Richmond Mo to spend the holi-
days with his parents
Miss Carrie Crutcbmur will spend
Chrlcstmas with her brother Arthur
Crutcbmur at Coal ton
Miss Elisabeth Banks wlU go to
Adah this evening to spend Christmas
with her parents
Miss Bessie Anderson will go to 8a-
pulpa this evening to spend Christmas
with relatives
Miss Gulls Hulsey who teaches in
district 44 Is the guest of Miss Eve-
lyn Bailey
Miss Freda Shelton of Henryetta
was the guest of Mrs B C Hodges
today
C A Lockhart of Bryant came In
today to spend Christmas with frlenda
C L Davis will spend the holidays
with relatives to Bartelcsvtll
3 YEARS FOR STEALING A DRUM
Grand Junction Colo Dec 8L—
James Riley alias James Morgan was
sentenced today to the penitentiary at
Canon City for a term from one to
three years tor stealing a baas drum
from the Salvation army her
Riley attended a devotional meet-
ing of the Salvation army and while
be congregation and members wore
bowed In prayer he walked away
with the musical Instrument
NOTED SURGEON DIKS
ARDMORB SILLS BONDS'
Ardmore Okla Deo 82— Ardmore's
Issue of IIOOOQO high school bonds
was purchased Friday by John New-
een Land company which firm paid
1102185 theefor rThe money derived
from the sale of these bonds will be
J E RICHARDSON A CO
Publlo Accountants and Auditors
Imprisonment 'in the state penlten-
tlary at McAlester for the rest of his
natural life was the punishment fixed
by a district court Jury yesterday af-
ternoon upon William M Irwin a for-
mer prominent real estate dealer of
Muskogee Irwin Is guilty of a foul
conspiracy whereby to obtain lands
worth a quarter of a million dollars
owned by Herbert and Stella Sells
two little negro children he caused
other to dynamite the home In which
they slept at Taft on the twenty-third
day of this March murdering them
both'
It required but a little over four
hours of actual deliberation for the
jury to reach its verdict
On the first ballot all were for con-
viction hut two voted for the death
penalty It was upon this question
that the twelve men debated Shortly
after lunch the two men voting for
the gallows agreed to the verdict ef
the other
It was about two o’clock yesterday
afternoon when Judge deGraffenrled
was notified that the Jury had reached
a verdict When he took the bench
and called the court to order quite h
crowd was in the court room - The
defendant William Irwin was in the
chair which he has usually occupied
during the ten long days of the trial
and apparently as happy and care free
as any man in the room
The Judge asked the Jury after they
bad ben placed In the box by bailiffs
who have had them In charge If they
bad reached a verdict and the fore-
man answered that they had A slip
of paper was handed to the clerk and
when he started to read there was
not a sound In the room except his
vole
As the words rang out in the court
room "We the "Jury find the defend-
ant William M Irwin guilty of mur-
der as charged and assess his punish-
ment at Imprisonment In the state
penitentiary for life at hard labor"
Irwin started from his chair and then
collapsed his head fell to his breast
and for the first time William Irwin
custody of Jailer H H ' Brown a
walked out of the court room In the
broken man
All through the trial Irwin has been
confident of nis ultimate exoneration
and has often declared to various
men and to officers that as soon as
he was acquitted he Intended prose-
cuting a number of men who had
sworn against him for perjury Dur-
ing the long days when the state was
piling up circumstance after circum-
stance against him he would sit
crouched In his chair half aslep
Always has he declared his Inno-
cence and when taken to jail at the
Judge's order Friday night he talked
of the time soon when he would once
more be at liberty to return thanks
to his friends and punish the men who
had sworn falsely against him
As he was led from the court room
yesterday he stoutly maintained that
he was Innocent declaring he had been
sent to prison by purchased testimony
and that his day of vengeance would
com
Last evening when locked In his
cell he was quiet his spirit for once
seemed broken and he was not the
same talkative care free Irwin who
had been there s few hours befor
Each in a cell apart from the oth-
ers five of the men whom the state
claim have been Implicated in one of
the worst crimes of history are now
confined In the county Jail under the
strict watch of Jailer Brown and his
men William Irwin the man whom
the state claims devised and planned
the deathof Herbert and Stella Bells
two litle negro children for th4r
money Is in one already under sen-
tence for lif Doc Allen In the words
of County Attorney Disney "Irwin’s
man Friday” Is In another and one
of his assistant John Norwood Is
near by
Bom days ago Doe Allen made a
statement At the same time he was
telling his share in the murder John
Norwood was on the witness stand
telling of bis connection In the con
spiraea Tat night the sheriff's force
was w4w1 to pick up Sam Lowe
and Jiw sanuel and place them la
the eeaasr JalL These men had al-
ready lews Indicted but both had been
let out t rond and it Is rumored that
somethin In Doc Allen's statement
causes Um officials to think It best to
have them under watch
On wans Thursday Doo Allen will
he plaood en trial on the same charge
as that upon which William M Irwin
was tried Allen Is the negro whom
witnesses In the case just finished say
was with Irwin on numerous occa-
sions just before the explosion and
whom John Norwood says was sent
by Irwin to blow UP Mrs Mackey and
her two children
Dyo Alien Is the man whom John
Norwood declares was with Sam Lowe
°h the evening before the murder near
Ford's gin at Taft with a bucket tilled
with dynamite gun powder and rock
ready to be placod under the house
Allen is the man whom Norwod says
offered him part of the 35000 which
William Irwin was to pay for the Job
If be would go and watch while he
and Lowe did the work
Doc Allen Is the man whom wit-
nesses said went to Mexico and
"framed up” with J C Johnson to
represent himself as Hardy Sells and
according to Disney was “Irwin's Man
Friday”
1 Last week It was said Allen bad
made a full and complete statement
to the officers and attorneys confess-
ing he blew up the children at Taft
op the morning of March 23d and Im-
plicating William - Irwin Sam Lowe
John Norwood and Zeb Mackey in
the crime -It
is believed that when Doc Allen
Is brought to trial he will enter a plea
of guilty In hopes of obtaining a light
sentence
Mr Disney announced last night
that after the Doc Allen case had
been tried the case of F L Martin
would begin But at this time no date
has ben set by the court
MATE LEAGUE
I
1 Tulsa Okla Dec 22 — Oklahoma
towns are to enjoy league baseball
next season At a meeting of mag-
nates and fans held here Friday after-
noon the Tri-state league was organ-
ized composed of six teams In Okla-
homa Missouri and Arkansas The
new leagup takes the place of the old
Western association The Jumps be-
tween the league towns will be the
shortest perhaps of any class C
league ever organized
The following towns will hold fran-
chises: - Fort Smith Muskogee Ok-
mulgee Sapulpa Joplin and Tula A
126-game season will be played At a
meeting to be held here January 10
officers will be elected The presiden
will not be connected with any team
in the league A 3100000 baseball
park the finest in Oklahoma will be
built a mile west of Tulsa by Charles
Page millionaire oil magnate and
owner of the Tulsa franchise acocrd-
ingto his announcement
E SCOPE
OF FEDERAL P
E
Indanapolls Ind Dec 22 — Widen-
ing the scope of its Inquiry into the
alleged country-wide dynamiting con-
spiracy the federal grand jury exam
ned Its first witness from the Pacific
coast Charles C Klzer of Los Angeles
today before It adjourned to January
Other witnesses from Los Angeles
and San Francisco as well as from
New York and Boston are to be
heard ltls understood when the grand
Jury resumes Its session
The federal authorities are believed
now to be ready to attempt to verify
documentary evidence by the testi-
mony of witnesses Buposed to have
knowledge of the movements of men
alleged to have ben associated with
James B and John J McNamara and
Ortie McManlgal In their confessed
depredations More than 100 witnesses
It Is said will be called before the
grand -Jury puring January The dis-
trict attorney’s office expects the jury
to be able to report Its findings by
February 1
Want to sell a house rent a uouse
make a trade or want to find help of
and kind — use the Herald want column
and get quick results
Place your order now for Xmas
Cakes IPes and Rolls Widener’s 21-23
The ladles of the First Methodist
church south will hold a cake and
bread sale at Rea-Hunter grocery
Saturday afternoon 14-15
NOTICE
Those who wish to make entries in
the poultry show next week will find
Peter Brown secretary at the office
of Col J L Peacock register of deeds
office In the Morton building corner
of Main street and Central avenue
The secretary will be at the office all
day Tuesday and all day Wednesday
HOBO CASE LOOKS
LIKEvA FRAZZLE
End Okla Dec 22 — Owing to ill-
ness In the families of two Jurors
whch caused their excuse from jury
duty temporarily Atorney General
West and attorneys for Lon Bobo
agreed to a mistrial in the bribery
case which has ben in progress for
the past wok Both sides admitted
that further progress n the trial of
the case was uncertain and the court
ordered the case set down for trial In
the January terra of the district court
The state had only concluded its ev-
idence and the defense argued several
preliminary motions when the wife of
B F Wood of Drummond was report-
ed to be critically 111 and the Juror
was excused
The next day Illness In the family
of Louis Schouling of Falrmount ne-
cessitated his absence It was agreed
that ' there were slight chances that
the case could be contnued and the
remainder of the Jury was discharged
Bobo was on trial on a grand Jury
accusation charging him with bribing
the county' attorney and sheriff to
obtain protection for gamblers and
bootleggers
IHnjWEIIl
II 111 WRECK
Texarkana Ark Dec 22— Thirty to
forty persons were Injured In a wreck
on the Texas & Pacific railroad at
Kildare forty miles south of here be-
fore daylight today Passenger trains
Nos 2 and 104 were In a head-on col-
lision The wreck occurred according to
reports reaching here when No 3
southbound took a siding to wait for
104 to pass A negro porter in his
hurry to set the switch so that No 3
could proceed Is said to have thrown
it before the other train passed with
the result that the other train plunged
into the one waiting on the siding
It Is reported that the most serious
injuries are confined to trainmen
MAYBRAY
EXPLAINS
WORKINGS OF
GANG
Council Bluffs Iowa Dec 22 — After
giving details of handling of large
sums of money and telling of the al-
leged connection with the Maybray
swindle of an ex-county and city offi-
cial John C Maybray left the witness
stand In the trial of Benjamin Marks
Thursday night to resume the stand
again Friday
As a climax to a series of pointed
questions Maybray was asked why he
had not told on direct examination all
the facts with reference to the extra
2 per cent which be testified he had
paid to Marks The witness testified
that Marks had told him one per cent
of- ths extra amount demanded was
for the then County Attorney J J
Hess who was to be paid by Marks
and for that no notice was to be taken
of complaints that might be made at
his office The other one per cent the
witness testified was for the officers
of the First National bank
A big line of fine candles at the
Model Drug store The place to get
your Xmas candles 6tf
We will roast and deliver your
Xmas turkey for dinner Wldener
Bakery 21-23
We will roast and deliver you
Xmas turkey - for dinner Wldener
Bakery 21-23
Patronize the home merchant
paid my deputy out of my own sal-
ary The office had more work than
it haa today for then It Included most
of the duties now imposed on another
county offclal Today the man who
was elected to the same office I held
Juat prior to statehood draws 32400
tor entertaining visitors He seldom
pretends to do any work His deputy
draws 31200 his chief clerk 31000 a
stenographer 3600 and another helper
3600 making n total of 36800 or Just
a little more than thre times what
I drew This is Just ons example In
our county for the same conottlon Is
true In a larger or smaller aeitree all
the way through the eiwnty of
fices"
That man la a democrat esl he Is
one of the most respectee warn In the
state The record for nsetese extrava-
gance aa made by toe Awmocratlc
party in Oklahoma la eae of Incom-
petence and it la written to letters of
gold on every page of tho state’s his-
tory And still some of these democratic
papers have the temerity to aay that
the democratic party la not responsi-
ble Then In the name of common
aeose who 1st Certainly the record
Is one of which the party may well
be ashamed All Intelligent Okla-
HAITI XMAS :
FOR ED IIEMI
V
It la a happy Christmas for Ed
Nern the accommodating and popular
clerk of the district court (
Who would not be happy T
But to the story as Shakespeare ’
would say If he were living ‘
When Mr Nern entered his office '
this morning early he found — ' I ?
Why a Christmas tree And it was '
Just loaded down with different k '
things Things to wear always ac- r
ceptable to a man and things to eat k
things to loo t or make a noise -
with or wash with or — well the
things are for such various purposes
that It might be a good Idea to name
few of them to-wii: second-hand
stiff hat low crown style a red neck-
tie that was lustrous when It was new
when granfather was a boy a string
of popcorn a lemon Sappho washing
powder a brand new brush and curry
comb two tin horns aqd other arti-
cles too numerous to mention as the
‘colonels" say
The Herald reporter knew there was
something doing over at the court
house as would any newspaper man
with any news Instinct at all and pro-
ceeded to tho office of the district
clerk As the door closed a cow bell
was rung attached to the door The
cow bell called the attention of the
reporter to th$ Christmas tree m the
corner behind the door A number of
attorneys were gathered' sound the
teee Mr Nern stood at a distance
of a few feet with all but tears in
his eyes
It was a beautiful scene The tree
was higher than a man’s head It was
cedar with the nedles stripped off
except for a few razzles It bore at
the top this legend artistically paint-
ed with black wagon tar on a per-
fectly white brlstol board: “Eddie’s
first Christmas tree” After the ex-
citement had somewhat subsided It
was possible to learn how It all came
about and the credit Is due to court
clerks ‘and deputies and other friends
of the district clerk who wanted to
make him happy and spared neither
pains nor money to make the event a
success - ’
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PENITENTIARY RECORDS
McAlester Okla Dec 22— The fol-
lowing prisoners were received at the
state penltentlaryr A Main Grant
false pretense one year C C Win-
chum larceny domestic animals and
grand larceny two and three years
from Hughes county
The following were released: Sam
Wood Pttsburg county manslaughter
twenty years paroled H H Hodges
Seminole county forgery four years
W H Watson Stephens county lar-
ceny domestic animals one year ex-
pired terms John Martin Seminole
county two years assault who es-
caped some time ago was returned to
the prison
Our Fruit Cake this year Is better
than ever Try It Wldener Bakery
We will roast and deliver your
Xmas turkey for dinner Wldener
Bakery 21-23
Our TYult Cake this year Is better
than ever Try It Wldener Bakery
Oklahoma Gobbler
AND MANUFACTURER OF B00T8
AND 8H0E8
W T Brown haa bought the Wheat-
ley Electric Shoe Shop and will run a
first class manufacturing and repair
establishment All work guaranteed
In basement under Mill’s Pool HalL
22tf BROWN & SON
DEMOCRACY MUST SHOULDER
THE BLAME
Some of the democratic newspapers
of this state are very busy these days
explaining that a very small propor-
tion of the taxes collected are for
state purposes and then they go on
to say that the democratic party Is In
no way responsible for the county
taxes
Is this true? Well let’s see
Who made the laws under which
we llvet
The democrats
Who created the large number of
county offices?
Ths democrats
Well then who provided the laws
whereby the taxes could be levied to
pay for ths large number of county
officers at excessive salaries with
needless deputies and clerks?
The democrats -
Everyone must admit that this Is
true Admitting these facts let’s look
Into the conditions A few days ago
the writer was discussing these mat-
ters with a citizen of Lincoln county
He was an ex-county official and
aald :
- "When I was In office in my county
I received 31800 a year salary and I
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