The Taloga Times. (Taloga, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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CONDENSED NEWS
Thb important happening* op
A WEEK.
Prepared for Our Rusy Readera Who
Want the Whole New* In
Uttlo Spaeo.
SIGNED COUNT MAKES
SMALLER ENUMERATION
ROVRRNMENT TO TEST
OKLAHOMA OAS WELL*
Testimony In K. C. Investigation Con.
flloting ae to the Amount of
Production.
School Population of Oklahoma It Ap-
parently 15,000 Leas Than
Lait Year.
Oklahoma City. Okla.—The total
enumeration of school children now!
between the ages of 6 and 21 years'
will bo considerably less this year by
reason of a rule of the state superin-
tendent's department which requires a
personal enumeration to be made and
the signing of the blank by a parent.
With two counties not yet reported the
total enumeration for 1912, is 15,077
less than a year ago.
It has been the practice, In cities
particularly, to add to the number of
pupils, as shown by teachers' director-
ies, all students attending private
schools, and let that represent the'
county's number upon which it would!
receive an apportionment from the
^ state. The department required that!
each family be listed, giving the names,
of children, with their ages, on blanks'
prepared for such purpose.
From these sheets Is prepared the:
county'e enumeration. As a result cit-
ies suffered a marked decrease In the
number of school children, while coun-
try districts gained. In Oklahoma Cityi
alone the reduction will be about 4,-'
000, while Tulsa remains about the
same. In Muskogee there is an in-
crease.
As a result of the new plan, the ap- ■
portlonment this year probably will be
12 or more per pupil.
Tulsa, Okla.—So conflicting was the
testimony given as to the production
of gas in Oklahoma in the Kansas City-
gas Investigation that the government
has taken a hand in the matter. For
instance, producer* in the new Cush-
ing field testified there was available
in that field now 200,000,000 cnblo
feet of gas daily, but Raymond
Short, government oil and gas in-
spector, took the stand later and swore
the production of every well in that
field was but a fraction of what was
claimed for it by the owners. He
claims to have recently taken an ac-
curate gauge of the wells. Short's
statements were torn to pieces in re-
buttal and the accuracy of government
testimony was called Into question,
whereupon Chief Inspector Morrison
decided to personally gauge every well
in the CushlCg field. He will be as-
sisted by Short.
Since this investigation closed,, a
new field just outside this city on the
northwest has been opened with the
strike of a 25,000,000-foot well of dry
gas, indicating an exclusive field. Oth-
er gas strikes have been reported also.
Producers still cling to the notion
there is plenty of gas on hand and to
be discovered if only they can get a
price for it sufficient to warrant de-
velopment of proven territory and ex-
tensive wltdcattlng. They hold to this
opinion in spite of the efforts of so-
called experts to discredit the gaa
production in Oklahoma.
OKLAHOMA NEWS
PRISONER POOLED, HE SAYS.
Oliver Akin Thought Rend Per Him
Had Man Given, He Says, when
Ha Cam* to Oklahoma.
Norman, Okla.—Oliver H. Afctn,
school teacher and ex-member of the
Oklahoma legislature, Is In Jail here
In default of three bonds of $500 each,
after being liberated on one of a slm
liar amount, chraged with passing bad
checks October 26. Akin said he was
kidnaped in Los Angeles by two de-
tectives and hurried into an automo-
bile and delivered to Sheriff ike Sales
of Cleveland county, forty miles out
of Los Angeles, while he had habeas
corpus proceedings pending. Akin said
Ihe promised not to atempt to escape
if permitted to return to Los Angeles
, for his family, but the promise did
not apply to his escape from the train
near Lone Woir, okla. Mrs. .Afcin
came to Norman and arranged for
bond in one case, but waa unable to
do so oa the other three.
Akin, thinking bond in all cases had
been provided, notified Cleveland coun-
ty officers to come for him which they
did November 26 and returned with
him November ^8.
OUR STITE CIPITOL LETTER
WINGS OF THE OKLAHOMA STATE OFFICERS
A Brief Resianeof WhatOur "Hind Men" AieDciag. How
They Spend Their Tana. Eta.
RETTER PROTECTION
ASKED^RY RANK*
Oklahoma Governor Requested to
Recommend Heavier Robbery Pen
alty—Two Sidee to Case-
McDonald Released and Re-Arrested.
El Reno, Okla.—Alva J. McDonald,
state chairman of the Progressive par
ty, was released from jail here on a
$5,000 bond. District Judge John J.
Carney of Canadian and Oklahoma
counties, in releasing McDonald on
bond, said the crime with which he
was charged in Justice court was with
out the element of murder, and Mc-
Donald was re-arrested on the charge
of manslaughter. McDonald, on the
street, struck P. T. Marsh, a Social-
ist and attorney, whose skull was
cruhsed when he fell to the pavement,
dying twenty-four hours later. Mc
Donald was charged with Murder In
the first degree.
Bankers' Meeting Closes.
Guthrie, Okla.—The Western Okla-
homa Bankers' Association, with one
hundred delegates In attendance, doe
ed its annual convention at Woodward
with the election of the following of-
ficers: J. G. Bailey, of Quinlan,
president; S. L. Pryor, of Shattuck^
vice president; William H. Donohue.
of Seiling, secretary, and V. B. Brown,
of May, treasurer. Resolutions were
adopted urging the farmers to grow
crops suitable to the soil and climate.
To See How Indiana Live.
Guthrie, Okla—Dr. Guthrie of the
1 cited States Marine hospital serv-
ice is touring Oklahoma, vistlng the
various Indian agencies and Inspect-
ing them with reference to ascertain-
ing sanitary conditions among the In-
dians. He will report to the Wash
llngton departments relative to re-
forms or changes he deems necessarv.
Thrown Against Buggy Top; Dies.
Taloga, Okla—Mrs. E. M. Jones,
aged 63 years, was accidentally killed
while driving with her husband. A
wheel of the buggy struck a rut. caus-
ing the buggy top to strike Mrs. Jones
on the head resulting in a rupture of
a blood vessel.
Negro Hangs Self In Cell.
Enid, Okla.—Fearing commutation
to life imprisonment of bis death sen-
tence, fixed by a Jury", for the murdgr
of another negro, Roy Dixon, 30 years
old, hanged himself with bedclothes
in his cell. Dixon killed Sam Hill In
a quarrel over a twenty-five cent pool
bet. The negroes In Garfield county
expressed elation when they. learned
of Dixon's conviction and some talk
of lynching him waa heard as the only-
other method of .carrying out the Juyr'a
verdict. Jailer conrad was the only
person near the negro at the time of
the suicide. He went to Dixon's cell
upon hearing- a commotion, and found
him dead.
Wife Witnesses Suicide.
Ramona. Okla.—Seated in his home
here with his wife, Dr. T. J. Jennings
a well-known physician, 40 years old,
drew a revolver from his pocket and
exclaimed: "I see nothing in life for
me." Then he fired a bullet into his
brain, falling dead. His wife rell In
a faint beside him. Neighbors, hear-
ing the shot, rushed into the house
and found Jennings lifeless and the
wife apparently dead. Jennings had
been treated for the drug habit, and
was believed to have been cured. Re-
cently be took to using drugs again.
S*ek Pardon for Wright.
Guthrie, Okla.—A petition is being
prepared to send to Preaident Taft
®'klln5 * Pardon or parole for R. A.
Wright, serving a life term at Lear-
enworth for the mnrder of William
Slattery in Caddo county, Oklahoma,
late in 1904. Wright was tried at An-
adarko la May, 1905, convicted by a
jury after a half hour's deliberation
and sentenced to bang on July of that
year. His attorneys raised the point
that the grand Jury that indicted him
waa illegally empaneled. A new trial
resulted In life Imprisonment Follow-
ing Wright's arrest for killing Slat-
tery he waa taken to Hobart, where
three separate attempts were made to
lynch him. Transferred to Anadarko
an attempt was made to blow up the'
Jail there. Wright was a tenant on
Slattery s place. They went hunting
together and Wright returned home
with Slattery's team and wagon, show-
ing a bill of s*le for them. A search
waa made and Slattery's dead body
was found in a canyon covered with
brush and atone.
Takes Poison for Syrup; Dleo.
Rush Springs, Okla.—J. S. Garllnk.
traveling agent for the National Re-
serve Ix>an Life Insurance company
of Indiana, died In Dr. Hampton's of-
fice, after taking carbolic acid instead
of syrup In a glass of bitters. The
coroner's Jury verdict was; "We find
from the statements of Drs. Evans
and Bently that J. S. Garlick came to
his death by accidental poisoning, tak-
en in lieu of simple syrup sweeting a
bitter tonic."
Oklahomana Cry "Stungl"
Tulsa, Okla.—That they purchased
a "gold brick" when they were induced
by some Muskogee men to subscribe
a controlling Interest In the defunct
Merchants and Planters Fire Inauianco
Company which failed about thr^e
years ago with liabilities of nearly a
quarter of a million. Is the defense
i of the officers of the concern, being
sued by Receiver A. B. Harn for -io
amount each Is alleged to be obligat-
ed to the concern. John O. Mitchell,
former mayor and reputed millionaire
was the star "angel" of the concern,
and Is said to have his nam<9 Attached
to paper for approximately 178,000.
8ome of the other alleged victims \re
George Williamson of the Beane-Van-
diver Dry Goods Company, Judge John
O. Ollphant and Charles Haley, an ab-
stractor.
Members of the executive commit-
tee of the State Bankers' Association
called on Governor Cruce the other
day to discuss his recommendations
to the legislature which had been out-
lined In the bi-annual message. There
is no difference between the bankers
and the governor as tar aa the latter
had gone; however, they ask that the
penalty for bank robbery be nfSde
heavier.
The latest bank hold-up was at
Foyil, Rogers county. A lone bandit
walked through the front door of the
bank building and at the point of a
weapon carried off $1,000. Governor
Cruce said If anything was done about
changing the penalty it should be
made to work both ways, and apply
to robbery from the Inside as well as
from the outside.. He told the com-
mittee that four times as much money
has been taken by persons in charge
of banking Institutions In Oklahoma
as has been taken by "highwaymen
operating in the open."
In his recommendations for legisla-
tion, Bank Commissioner Lankford
suggests a heavy penalty for train rob-
bery or bank burglary. He believes
the governor should be authorized to
offer rewards, since the depredations
la Oklahoma, the commissioner aays,
are becoming more alarming each
year. The commissioner also believes
that It should be made a felony to cir-
culate a false report which Is directly
or lnferentlally derogatory to the
financial condition, or affects the sol-
vency or financial standing of banks
in Oklahoma.
Prohibitive measures should be tak-
en against bankers loaning or advanc-
ing money from a bank to an out-
side concern with which the bank Is
identified directly or indirectly, as
nearly every failure In Oklahoma, the
commissioner says, has been due to
loans in which the officers, directors
or heavy stockholders of the failed
Instltuions were Interested. It Is of-
ten the case that large loans are made
to the father, mother, sister, brother
or some other relative of the banker
and In nearly every case they are in
sufficiently secured.
To "Pen" Pending Appeal.
Tulsa, Okla.—Joe Baker and Guy D.
Mackenzie, convicted and under life
sentence for the murder of Charles
T. Reuter, a lawyer, will be removed
to the penitentiary at McAlester, pend-
ing their appeal to the court of crim-
inal appeals. So voluminous Is the
record of their trial that it will take
at least four months to transcribe It.
The two men would have been taken
to the penitentiary this week but for
the death of the aged mother of Mac-
kenzie. The trial of Mrs. Reuter will
come up in January. Her counsel will
again ask for a change of venue and
the trial will very likely go to the
•district court of Pawnee county. Bud
Bellow, whose confession effected the
conviction of Baker and Mackenzie,
.will be held in Jail until after the trial
of Mrs. Reuter.
Forgiven, Then Sentenced.
Guthrie, Okla.—William J. short
was found guilty in the district court
of shooting his wife with intent to
kill and was sentenced to five years
In the penitentiary. Short was di-
vorced from his wife when be shot
her. She gave bond for his release
and then re-marrled him. The couple
have been married 29 years and hava
six children.
Oklahoman Convicted of Murder.
McAlester, Okla.—George Reedy was
found guilty by a Jury in the district
court of the murder of "Red" Morgan,
• constable at Carbon, Ok., In 1909.
Morgan waa shot while serving a war-
rant
Recomea Father at 90 Years.
Bartlesville, Okla.—William Castle-
bury, 90 years old and alomst blind,
will spend bis declining years rocking
a baby to sleep, a daughter having
Just been born to him. Mre. Castle-
bury Is Just past 36 years old. Caatle-
bury surprised bis children and grand-
children when he married a year ago.
He bad been « widower for years and
is a wealthy, retired fanner .
Girl Dragged to Death By Pony.
Perry, Okla.—With her foot caught
in the stirrup. Thelma I.eFurgy. 8-
year-old daughter of Homer LeFurg/,
was dragged half a mile by a fright-
ened pony and picked up dead. Her
neck was broken. An older sister at-
tempted to mount behind Thelma and
this frightened the pony, causing It
to run away.
Rody Exhumed; Widow Held.
Oklahoma City, Okla.—Mrs. Anna
Griffin Rodgers, widow of Perry Griffin,
who died at Snyder about three years
ago, presumably of poison, was ar-
rested at Lubbock, Tex., the other
day by Undersheriff Wilson of this
county. Griffin died under circum-
stances which led to the belief that
foul play had been resorted to. His
wife was Indicted by the grand Jury
last May. The body was exhumed a
short time ago and parts of the In-
ternal organs were sent to Norman to
the state chemist for analysis. It is
supposed that upon bis report, which
has not been made public, the arrest
was baaed.
Hatchett Appointed District Judge.
Governor Cruce baa appointed form
jer State Senator Jesse M. Hatchett of
Durant as Judge of the Sixth district
ID place of J. H. Ferguson resigned.
'Judge Ferguson accompanied his suc-
cessor to Oklahoma City to give him
Jhts personal Indorsement. Judge Hat-
chett was a prominent member of the
first legislature and was noted for the
rlratchful eye he kept upon bills of an
extravagant tendency.
Bhowing Waa Nat Complete.
I Papers Issued for extradition of R.
S. Jackson from the City of Mexico
ion a charge ot embezzlement were re-
turned to Governor Cruce by Secre-
tary of 8tnte Knox with the informa-
itlon that the showing was not com
iplete. Jackson is cahrged with em
Ibezzlement of $11,000 from an Okla-
homa City dry goods firm.
Violate Ineama Tax Law.
Guthrie. Okla—For failure to make
reporta of their business during the
last flacal year to the Internal revenue
department of the federal government
aa required under the congressional
act creating the Income tax. Federal
Judge Cotterai entered flnea on the
federal court records here of $1,0)0
each and coata against the Oklahoma
Non-Truet Photo Supply Company ac<|
the Case Sanitarium Company, both of
Oklahoma City, and the Farmera' Gin
and Mill Company of Elmer. These
are the first flnea entered In Oklaho-
®i under the Income tax law.
Man Sklna Calf; Pace Infested.
Bartlesville, Okla.—J. C. Durrill, a
welathy cattleman reeidlng near bare.
Is suffering from blood poisoning. The
disease developed soon after Dutroll
removed the hide from a calf that died
of "blackle*."
Dinner for ISO Neweboya.
Oklahoma City, Okla.—One hundred
and ninety Oklahoma City newsboys
were the gueeta at aa annual Thank*
giving banquet at the Lee Huckin's
hotel here. Justice Robert L. will-
iams waa the boat, and among the
prominent man that attended ware
Go*. Lee Cruce, Chairman Jack Love,
of the corporation commission, Rlabop
F. K. Brooke of the Methodlat Epis
copal church and Whitman M. Grant
mayor «f —
I
J Canton Attende National Meeting
j Adjutant General Frank M. Canton
,has been In Norfolk, Va.. attending the
.annual convention of the National
Guarda association.
Cannot Tan Allotments.
Allotmenta of members of the Chero-
kee Indian tribe dealgnated in the
Cherokee agreement as the Indian's
homestead, are not subject to taxalon
so long as held by the original altot-
tee, and Insofar as the congressional
aot of May 27,1908, attempts to render
them eubject to taxation It la uncon-
stitutional. Thla holding waa, by Judge
Rosser of the supreme court commis-
sion, Division No. 2, In affirming the
district court of mtawa county In the
case of J. F. Wellep, county treasur
er, against Frank G. Audrain and otb-
ers.
Ask Reealver for Shawnee Life.
Unit haa bean prepared by Assist-
ant Attorney General Reevee agalnat
the Shawnee Ufe Insurance-Company,
a domestic corporation, asking for the
apointmant of a receiver and that the
oompany bo anjotned from farther
writing of new buelssss. The action
will bo baaed upon information fur-
nlshsd by Perry A. Ballard, stau In-
surance commissioner, at whose la
qasst Us reMvsr Is asked.
Not Authorized Under the Law,
In reply to an Inquiry from Oovai*
nor Cruce as to ordering the transfer
of a patient from a state hospital fW
the Insane to a private oanllarlum,
where the parents of the etate wars
are able to pay for private care, Afr
torney General Weat holds aucb action
la not authorised under eiiatlog law.
Will Meet in Oklahoma City.
A meeting of apacial aganta of Bra
Insurance companiee, fire waidena,
cblefa of fire departments and bond-
ing Inspectors will be held la nm.
homa City about December M. Thoae
officers will meet with the state maw
ance department and ilre ma—aBt to
draft a model building inspection lav
for presentation to the next lesiala-
ture.
Sapulpa Declared Winner.
Governor Cruce baa leaned a procla-
mation declaring Sapulpa the winner
In the recent Creek county saat elec-
tion conteet. The governor canvaeeed
the official returaa recently, and the
totale aa proclaimed by him are aa
.follows: Total vote cast 54M; for
Requisition Issued Upon Kanaaa.
Requisition has been lesnsd span the
delivery of mm
Chambers, chargsd b* laformatica fa
Rogers county, with firgery of a wan
LmmS?' Ck*mhtn "hsMfc U v>
I
•AYR ROTH SHOULD HANG.
Sapulpa Judge Recommende Death
Penelty for Two Murdersre.
A record In the case of the stats
agalnat Frank Hawkins, tried In Creek
county, in which Hawkins waa given
the death penalty for mnrder, haa
reached the goevrnor's office, accom-
panied by a letter from Judge Wade
S. Stan field of Sapulpa. Under the
law It Is the governor's duty to trans-
mit the record to the criminal court
of appeals for review to determine
whether the defendant has had n legal
trial. The case, however, baa not beea
appealed, but will bo, the governor la
told.
Judge Btanfleld says that Hawkina'
co-defendant waa given a life eentence
in the penitentiary. The evidence re-
vealed, the court aaya, not only an
aggravated caae of murder, but It
ahows a brutal one and aa abandoned
dlapoaltlon on the part of the convict-
ed men. The murderers drove their
victim Into the woods and whan ho
waa defenaeleas, deliberately murder-
ed him, then threw his body over a
precipice and shot It in the back as It
fell. Both, the court aaya, should have
the death penalty.
'An example in this community,"
says Judge Stanfleld'e letter, "wonM
undoubtedly work to the benefit of the
good citizen and the taxpayer at the
county. Life Imprtaonment bolde no
terror to auch defendants as theoe, I
do not believe, though, that Hawkina
ahould forfeit hla life in this caae un-
less the co-defendant doee likewlae, aa
I conalder him the atronger of the twot
and, probably, the more brutal."
Governor Cruce haa recommended to
the legislature abolishment of the
death penalty.
Hunters' Llceneee Rogue.
A method of defrauding the etate
out of revenue from hunting licensee
haa been uncovered by John Doolin,
state flah and game warden. Bogus
non-resident huntingiicensee are bo- •
confiscated. According to Mr. Law-
head, chief aaelstant to Doolin, and
It is believed a large number hava
been to hunters throughout the state.
The game deportment haa ordered all
deputies to ask each hunter to produce
hla license, and In all caaea where II-
cenaes do not bear the algnature of
John Doolin, the hunter la to ^e ar-
rested and the counterfeit certificate
conflarated. According eo Mr. Law-
head, duplicate permlta, which are Is-
sued only upon sworn statemeota that
the original license Is loet. are be-
ing covnerted Into non-realdent hunt*
Ing licenses, and aold for $li each.
Some of theae bear the signature of
county clerks, thus bearing a sem-
blance of regularity. Rome ot the bo-
gus licenses, it Is seld, were printed
at Shawnee. The game warden haa
called the matter to the attention of
the attorney general and aaked for
an inveetlgatlon. According Uf Mr.
Law head, moat of the bogus llrsnass
have been sold along the Kanaaa and
Arkansas llnee and It appeara that
wholesale frauds may have been pox*
petrated upon the state.
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