The Guthrie Daily Star (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 305, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 29, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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PAGE FOUR
THE GUTHRIE STAR.
THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 29. 1912.
Style 130
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niHile. It's especially suitable
for heavier figures needing a
special support. .Made with a
luediiun low bust, very long
over abdomen and hips. The
front clasp is wide at the bot-
tom, thus assisting to flatten
the abdomen. The special
heavy boiling set close togeth-
er gives the needed support.
Equipped with sets of heavy
garters. .Made of white coutil
and trimmed with ribbon. Sells
only at
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15 BARREL OIL TIFT SPEAKERS
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SAVE OWN NECK
Lawton, Okla., Feb. 28.—(Special.)
—An oil well was brought in today
on the Martin farm six miles due
east of the city. This well is in the
district where a well was shot a few
days ago and the oil was thrown into
the air high enough to scatter it for
a half mile around the country. It is
what is known here as the shallow
sand, and il only 137 feet deep. On
account of the shallow depth the
pressure will not ibe sufficient to
make it a flowing well but. It will
yield at least 40 barrels. This is
considered by the expert oil Mien here
a good paying well, and they will
now drill a large number of these
shallow wells on this and the ad-
joining leases. Other wells are al-
most ready to be brought in.
This oil wall is due north and two
miles from the gas wells which fur-
nl h the city with a partial supply|
and which is being developed as rap-
idly as possible. Some of the drillers
in other localities have passed a good
showing at the high level but are
going down to a greater depth and
they expect to strike something in
some of the numerous holes very
oon.
PRES. HERO'S
1
URELY
ERSONAL
Harry Kerr, the Marshall police-
man, was in Guthrie yesterday mix-
ing with the fellows who are going
to ;ave the country and some of the
offices.
E
Already there is considerable ac-
tivity among the prospective candi-
dates for the various county offices in
lx>gan county. The first announce-
ment made in this issue of the Star
shows that they are getting in real
earnest and will soon let the voters
know juut who is who and what is
what.
Mexico City, Feb. 28.—A statement
issued today by Sanches Azcoua, pri-
vate secretary to President Madero,
asserts that a massacre of Americans
is probable if the United States troops
cross the border.
This has created a sensation
among foreigners and representatives
of various legations have laid plans
for Joint protection of all foreigners.
The reason for the statement is a
puzzle to the foreigners, as Madero
asserts the fall of Juarz is insignifi-
cant. It is thought, however, that
this statement is a part of Madero's
plan to prevent Intervention.
1'iieasiness in State Offices.
Washington, Feb. 28.—The Azcona
statement from Mexico City in regard
to a probable massacre of Americans
should U. S. troops cross the iborder,
caused much uneasiness today at
Washington, as it is feared it will
incite the already excited Mexicans.
President Taft and Acting Secre-
tary of State Wilson, and Secretary
Meyer held a conference. It is be-
lieved that President Madro thought
by issuing his statement he could
cause the U. S. government to aban-
don its plan for a neutral zone, with
a patrol far both countries.
It is feared that the Mexicans will
take this move as an invasion. Sena-
tor Lodge said that Presideht Taft
told him the Mexican situation was
very dangerous and delicate.
WHEAT
IS
A few weeks ago there was a gen-
eral sentiment of deep discourage-
ment among the farmers all over the
county over the appearance of the
wheat as It was Juist then coming out
of the severe winter freezes. In fact
there were a number of large fields
which were plowd up iirparatory to
oats sowing, and others were appar-
antly doomed. Three weeks ago it
was a sorry prospect with many of
the largest wheat growers of this and
the adjoining counties.
With the recent rains and the last
two snows were most timely and to-
day the reports from every part of
the county are that many of the fields
which were marked for destruction
are coming out nicely and will make
a good crop. In fact very few where
the soil was not such as caused a
blow-out during the high winds a few
weeks ago, are going to be plowed
up.
1
T CHANGING DATE
Washington, Feb. 28.—Democratic
leader Martin of the senate after
conferences with a dozen or more
of his democratic colleagues said
today there was practically no sen-
timent in the senate for a postpone-
ment of t he democratic national
convention in Baltimore .lune 25.
The Harmon headquarters gave out
today opposing postponement of the
convention. Harmon workers claim
the delegates to Baltimore will have
formed their opinons before the re-
publicans meet at Chi ago .lune 18.
Speaker Clark said he opposed the
postponement idea.
(Continued from Page One.))
cated, and he minced no wordi* in
sating that Roosevelt's idea of the re-
call was the nearest to anarchy that
had yet been offered.
Judge Brown stated that Roosevelt
was standing on the platform adopt-
ed by the democratic state convention
several days ago at Oklahoma City,
"if the republicans nominate him
what kind of a platform can they run
him on?" he asked. And he declared
that republican principles were for-
eign to those now being enunciated
by Roosevelt. "The things that he
advocated at Columbus are 'lower
than was ever offered by the lowest
populist during the palmy days of
populism in Kansas," said the
speaker.
Frank H. Greer stated that he had
always been a friend and admirer of
Roosevelt until when the latter re-
turned from Africa, he gave evidence
of breaking with hrs long-time friend,
William H. Taft. Greer's speech was
full of ginger and planii points, and
he gisted it iby saying: "1 am against
Roosevelt for renomination for three
reasons, b cause 1 am opposed to
third termers, because of his revolu-
tionary speech at Columbus, and be-
cause of Ills treatment of President
Tart."
During the evening, too, messages
were read from Governor Tom Fergu-
son, Congressman Bird S. MeGuiire
and State Chairman James A. Harris.
Congressman McGuire wired:
"Give my regards to all the Guth-
rie and Logan county republicans and
a sure them that the .best friend of
Guthrie, Logan county, the First dis-
trict and the state of Oklahoma is
William H. Taft. He will be renomi-
nated."
Governor Ferguson wrote:
"TeH all my Guthrie friends that
my heart is with them and for them
to support Taft for renomination and
election."
The letter from State Chairman
James A. Harris was as follows:
Wagoner, Okla., Feb. 27, 1912.
Logan County Republican Club.
Am sorry cannot accept the kind
invitation of Logan County Republic
can club to addresis your people to-
morrow night, but eXipeet to get over
there within the next few days. The
conditions over the state are looking
good, notwithstanding oRosevelt's
announcement. The second thought
of even Roosevelt republicans, as I
find it, i's to istand by their president
so long as he is a candidate, and he
has said, you know, that only death
can stop him. Therefore we are with
him until death does stop him.
Tell the Guthrie and Logan county
boys that we will win the state for
Taft. I made that prophecy several
weeks ago, and gave Mr. Taft that
promise and I see no reason to
change my views. Tell them, too,
that I am relying upon Logan county
to do her share of the work and to
stand by the guns on state conven-
tion day. They should not disappoint
him. As for my own district, the
Third, it will send a majority of its
delegates to Guthrie for Taft, and the
entire state will line up the same
way. 1 cannot understand why any
republican would vote to repudiate
his president. No man in the south- j
west has a greater 'personal admira-
tion for Theodore Roosevelt than my-
self, and it was through him that we
accepted Mr. Taft the first time and
made him our standard bearer. We
have found Taft to be a far greater
man than even Roosevelt told us he
wais1. Therefore, we have no reason
to go back on him now nor to doubt
that Roosevelt was telling us the
truth about him four years ago. Give
my regards to all the boys.
Yours for Success,
J. A. HARRIS.
(Continued from Page One.)
penally
for
casional semblance of a smile. Ap-
parently he got no sympathy from the
thousand people who heard his every
word.
IM'lViitlttiit's Knee Turns Whit*.
Mrs. Gentry wa* an enigma
throughout. Her faoe whitened to a
small degree and she clasped her boy,
Ted, more tightly in her arms as her
alleged unfaithful associate entered
the room. She did not look at him
until he began his testimony. She
then changed seats with one of her
will demand the death
Mrs. Gentry.
"Yes," was the reply, "1 went."
Mackey, one of the three accused of lawyers and maintained a steady, pit-
the murder, who has turned state's Hess, contemptuous stare at the man
evidence agalnjst Mrs. Alverta Gentry, on the witness stand. This persistent
his former sweetheart, was the fea- saze was only terminated at inter-
turo of the morning session of court va's when the boy, growing tiled of
Wednesday. the long session and the low, monot-
Settlmi Dramatic. onous tones of his mother's accuser
The setting was dramatic. On the 'became restless. Mrs. Gentry would
stand was Mackey his- face pale and Quiet the child by a few whispered
Set. word*.
The witness never one© looked at The scene was one never before en ]
the woman whose life he may be acted in this state.
swearing away. He spoke In a low
but clear voice. Once, when he Oklahoma City, Feb. 28. Moman
poured for himself a glass of water Pruiett, counsel tor the defense, de-
hls hand did not shake. manded at 3:22 Wednesday afternoon
The crowd, great at every session 'he confession made b> Mackey in tile
of the trial, was larger Wednesday county attorney's office, a week alter j
morning. The doors were ordered the crime. Mackey s direct examina-
locked by Judge Huston, but, in spite tion was based entirely upon
of this; some of the curious continued story told in this statement,
to find their way inside, till every state refused.
Inch of standing room was 'packed. Judge Huston finally decided
Women lake Seats. the defense.
When court adjourned at noon C. M. Haddock, minister of the
most of the men who had occupied church next to the Gentry home, was
seats left the court room. Their the second witness called by the
places were immediately tilled iby state. His testimony will deal with
women, determined to wait through the actions of Mrs. Gentry after her
the recess in order to have points of husband s murder was discovered,
vantage when the trial was resumed. That he made the confession to the
Mackey plunged at once into the, details of the killing of Thomas J.
story of his relations with Mrs. Gen- Gentry on the night of Jan. 6, for
try, and the crime which it is alleged' which crime Mrs. Gentry, the wife is
those relations finally brought about, now on trial in the district court, be-
lle took the stand at 11 o'clock and cause he expected leniency to him-
at noon he had not half completed his self, for doing so was the admission
testimony. He is the first and most of Jesse K. Mackey, star witness for
important witness for the state, and the prosecution, Wednesday after-
subsequent testimony will be used noon.
merely to corroborate his story. Also Mackey described the quality
Mackey testified that he was born of his 'love for the woman, the taking
in Texas, and that after coming to °f whose affections according to
Oklahoma, when 14, he had ibeen a Mackey, led up to the tragedy,
newsboy, then a messenger, and "Did you love this woman?" was
home, but Gentry did not drink the
milk and was spared.
On Jan. 6, a few hours proceeding
the murder, Mrs. Gentry went to the
kitchen of her home and selected a
shirt, the property of her husband.
"That," said she, "is the shirt in
which Gentry will be buried," ac-
cording to Mackey's testimony.
Then Morris Weightman appeared
with a revolver. He exhibited it to
Mackey, according to the latter's tes-
timony, and said:
"I am going to kill Gentry with
this."
Mrs. Gentry broke down at this
stage of the trial and cried, while her
wondering-eyed boy, Toddy, looked
on and patted his mother's cheek.
the
The
for
FINE OF
GIN M'LEOD
Dan McLeod of Kingfisher, found
guilty of violating the internal reve-
nue law, was sentenced to thirty days
in the Logan county jail and fined
$100 by Judge Cotteral in the federal
court yesterday.
Walter Brown of Kingfisher, who
was found guilty on a similar charge,
was sentenced to 60 days and $100 in
each ease. As the sentence is to be
served concurrently he wil lserve 60
days in all but will be forced to pay
a fine of $200.
Both men have 'been out on bond
but last evening were turned over to
the United States marshal who .placed
them in jail.
finally a delivery clerk for a grocer.
He is now 22.
Muckey l'ale and TremiiliiiK.
Immediately following the impan-
nelling of the jury Attorney Moman ard<>d as the woman of my af-
Prueitt filed a motion asking Judge lections.
A. H. 1 tutsion to sustain the challen- To ,he Question "You made this
asked ihim.
"Not passionately—no sir," replied
Mackey. "My love was deeper than
the world could understand. I re-
confe-ston believing that It would
mean that you would be freed—Is that
not so?" Mackey replied( :
"Yes, sir; that is what I had been
told. I talked to Mr. Zwick (t'he
They told me that If I'd
the peremptory challenges which had tel1 a11 1 knew 1 would be Protected,
and that they'd do all they could for
me."
gea previously made to Veniremen
Morgan and Pressley. The lawyer
6tated that the jurors had both ex- j
pressed opinions which declared the
defendant woman guilty. He also
asked that the defense ibe restored j 1,1 osecutor).
THE MARKETS
K. C. CASH GRAIN MARKET.
COR>:
No. 2, white corn, 65c.
No. 2 mixed corn, 65c.
No. 2 yellow corn, 65c.
No. 4, white corn, 62c.
No. 4, mixed corn, 62c.
No. 4, yellow corn, 62c.
No. 2 red wheat, 95c.
No. 2 hard wheat, $1.05.
No. 4, red wheat, 96c
No. 4 hard wheat, $1.02.
been used in disqualifying other ve-
niremen. The court overruled the
motion.
Just before the statement of the
state's case to the jury, the rule was
invoked and all witnesses excluded, PuibHc "T^ing P^ces to discuss the
from the room. The statement
Gruesome Story Told.
The gruesome story of how two
men and a woman met in obscure and
made by one of the prosecuting attor-
neys wais entirely in line with the tes-
timony later given by Mackey with a
few incidentals as to corroborative
proof. The confession of Mackey is
the entire ease of the state, support- i
cold-Wooded manner in which the
Gentry murder wais to have been
committed was told on the witness
stand by J. K. Mackey during the
afternoon session of the trial of Mrs.
T. J. Gentry Wednesday.
Once Gentry had struck hiis wife,
ed by various other witnesses as to according to the story she told Mack-
details.
ey, and she declared:
When Mackey entered the room in "I wi" Set even with him some
custody of an officer there was a j way. I will kill htm.
strained silence. He was pale, almost Then the plotting was begun,
trembling. He later lounged into the Mackey, Weightman and Mrs. Gentry
witness chair and as his rehearsal drank eggnog or they smoked cigar-
continued, he became less frustrated ettes, or all of them rode on street
and toward the last there was the cars, while they plotted and planned
appearance of the braggart and the the manner in which the deed was
boastful upon hi'3 face, with an oc- to be done.
Weightman made visits to drug
The manish hats will make a hit : stores in efforts to buy poisons and
this season. On display at Larsons' finally he secured arsenic from a
millinery opening, Friday and Satur- store in West Second street. The
COTTON MARKET.
March. May.
; New York—
! Open 10.13 10.26
lxiw 10.08
Close 10.11 10.27
i New Orleans—
Open 10.52 10.53
Low 10.50 10.50
Olose 10.51 10.53
Liverpool—
Open 5.68 5.70
Spots.
j New York 10.45
' New Orleans 10.00 7-16 15.00
Galveston 10.00 7-8 10.37
GUTHRIE LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Steens 4 to oc
Cows 3 1-2 to 4 l-2c
Heifers 4 to 4 l-2c
Veals 5 to 6c
Hogs $6.25
Poultry, hens 10c
Broilers ...15c
day. Come early.
305-2t poison was put in milk in the Gentry
FOR RENT—Light housekeeping
rooms. Can have garden. 606 E.
Cleveland. 304-4t
DISCHARGED IRE
Watch the Daily Star xrow.
(JET MONEY NEXT WTEh.
City Treasurer Felix Adler and
City Clerk Ernest Winslow returned
yesterday from Oklahoma City where
they took the $100,000 park boud Is-
sue to be signed by the attorney gen-
eral and turned over to the 'bonding
company. They stated that the mon-
ey for the bonds will be turned over
to the city some time during the first
part of next week.
All jurors except those serving in
the case of Wm. Courtney vs. Sheriff
Paul Meade of Kay county, a suit for
damages in the 3Um of $8,000, were
discharged for the term by Federal
Judge Cotteral Wednesday. The case
now occupying th eattention of the
court will probably be finished
Thursday. Court will be in session
then until the end of the week hear-
ing various matters not requiring a
Jury.
Monday the March term of court
opens in Oklahoma City.
* In the caae now on the 'plaintiff is
asking damages which he alleges was
done to about 600 head of cattle
which were dipped 'by the sheriff un-
der protest of Courtney.
OPENING
You are Cordially Invited to Attend our
SPRING OPENING
Friday and Sat., March 1 & 2
We will have on display a beautiful collection of
Pattern Hats, Tailored Hats and Millinery Novelties.
No lady in Guthrie should miss this rare treat.
Your inspection is solicited.
Larsons' Millinery
♦
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