Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 16, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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I I. N Tqrrill, the Murderer of Embree,
r Wants Out of the Penitentiary.
A special dispatch from Leav-
enworth, Kan., to the Kansas City
Journal says:
Cora Terrill, a young girl from
Oswego, Kan., is in Leavenworth
for the purpose of making an ef-
fort to have her father, I. N. Ter-
-ill, released from the Kansas
state penitentiary. Terrill has
already gained considerable news-
paper notoriety through his many
efforts to gain his freedom. He
refuses to work in the prison and
is kept in close confinement a
g jod part of the time. Terrill
formerly lived in Wichita, but
moved to Oklahoma wh n the
territory was opened. He was a
member of the 'first territorial
legislature and took an active
p-irt in the territorial capital fight.
He was sen} up to serve a life
imprisonment in the Kansas peni-
tentiary for murder. On several
occasions when he has applied
for a pardon he has pleaded his
own case. He is now making a
last desperate effort to get out
and his daughter has answered
his appeal and is here consulting
with attorneys.
Last Saturday morning she
made an effort to present a peti-
tion for a writ of habeas corpus
before the ^district court, but as
the court is now presided over by
judge pro tem, she was asked to
hold her petition until the return
of Judge Gilpatrick in a couple of
weeks. She visited her father in
the prison and states that she was
treated kindly by the prison au-
thorities and allowed to talk alone
with her father for some time.
She says he now is kept in close
confinement and is given two
meals a day, but thaf he has had
but one meal a day for some time
past. She will remain in Leaven-
worth until it becomes known
what action will be taken on her
petition. She stated that if the
judge refuses to grant habeas
corpus papers, she will appeal
1 personally to President Roose-
velt. Her father gave her a very
sensational letter in which he
states the causes leading up to
his trouble and telling what ac-
tions he has taken to secure his
freedom In his letter he attacks
the prison officials, making seri-
ous charges and alleging a con-
spiracy. Following is the letter*.
Lansing, Kan., March i, '05.
Cora 13. Terrill, Oswego, K in.
Dear Daughter—Realizing, as I
r.ow do, that 1 can endure but for
a short time longer the barbarous
abuse put upon me by my enemies
and being fullv aware that it is
the design of Warden h H. Jew-
ett to murder me in this prison,
therefore, I make this statement
of facts to you, that you may
learn of the wrongs 1 have suf-
fered.
As a member of the first legis-
lature ot the Oklahoma territory,
1 took an active part in breaking
ihe republican slate, and in in-
ducing the republican members
from Oklahoma county to leave
their party and help pass certain
economic laws in exchange for
our help to locate the capital at
Oklahoma City No other con-
sideration was given, offered or
contemplated. After we had per-
fected the contract, Guthrie peo-
ple raised a corruption fund and
attempted to bribe nu mbers of
the legislature. A citizen of Guth-
rie offered me $14,000 t0 vote
against Oklahoma City and for
Guthrie. I refused the bribe.
The Guthrie people not being able
to bribe members, then resorted
to deceit.
After the capital bill had passed
the council, .1 Guthrie citizen told
me that they had control of one
of my men and that there would
result a tie vote, and he.ol'fered to
guarantee me, talked sc assuredly
that I accepted from the Guthrie
corruption fund $1,000 as a guar-
antee. 1 thus got behind the
scenes, met the man whom they
seventeen months, during which who has been waging a crusade
time the Kansas state penitentiary against poisonous and adulterated
officials robbed me of the above foods and 1 Ajuors, urges the
mentioned certificate and of other American people to reform their
valuable property. Getting no aiet and go back to the simple
help from Warden Jewett, 1 ap- cuisine of our forefathers. In a
pealed to the state penitentiary recent lecture on "Foods, The r
said they controlled, found it a (jjreaors, and then to Gov. Stan- Composition and Function." he
game of deceit, found further that J |e Stanley referred me to the criticised the present American
they had guaranteed him I was to 1 (jirectorj Again getting no help nude of life and dietary. These
vote against the bill. He and 1 from ,he directors, 1 wrote to extra :ts are from his lecture:
then and there shook hands and postoffice Inspector Robert Ful- "Americans eat too much m^at.
agreed to see all the members toni 0f Kansas City, Mo., and then When vouv'e got a great deal of
who had agreed to vote f«r the [Q my brother, H. C. Terrill, of work to do don't eat a lot of
till had to do it or we would ex- Qsweg0, Kas., but Warden Jewett m-at. Eat fatty and starchy
pose the bribery in open session, j ^ t bo'.h of these letters from foods, plenty of potatoes, corn
The bill pasied. Guthre with feeing mailed. and bread. They build up tissues
her boasted £40,000 corruption At last I made petition to the and don't overwork the kidneys,
fund failed to buy one member. 1 supreme court of Kansas for a Beefsteak and o'her nitrogenous
told this publicly in Oklahoma wrjt Qf habeas corpus, and in my foods overwork the body in ex
within the statutes of limitation, petition stated the facts of the pelling them. Tne present w r
but I lost my liberty and must1 robbery and asked for certa n between Russ'a and Japan is
soon lose my life, because I thus kansas state penitentiary and ex- j showing that the man who eats
incurred the enmity of the.Guth-1 itate penitentiary officers to be least meat —for the Japanese live
rie boodlers. I subpoenaed, duces tecum, and re-| largely upon rice—can do the
St. LOUIS, EL RENO
& WESTERN |
Direct, Short Line Between Guthrie and El Reno
Quickest Time, Lowest Fare-
TO
Hobart Lawton Mangum
Anadarko Chickasha Weatherford
AND
Other points located on the Rock Island System. Making
close connection at Guthrie for all points North and East
Lv. Guthrie, T 9:15 a. m. Ar. El Reno 11 ;45 a. m,
Lv. Guthrie, * 5-15 p. m. Ar. El Reno 7:00 p. m.
Lv. El Reno • 6:55 a. m. Ar. Guthrie 8:40 a. m.
Lv. El Reno f 2\r j p. m. Ar. Guthrie 4:30 p. m.
t Mixed train. Daily except Sunday
* Passenger train, Daily except Sunday
W. S. WELLS, Commercial Agent
GUTHRIE, OKLA.
They, the Guthrie boodlers, gat
an old man drunk, wno was, when
drunk a bad man, and who was at
that time under a peace bond in
a United States commissioner's
court. This man shot and wound-
ed me, and shot and killed him.
The fight took place en the fed-
eral reservation in Guthrie, known
as the land office acre. If I com-
mitted a crime it was against fed-
eral authority and not against
Oklahoma territory. But 1 was
indicted for murder by a territo-
rial grand jury, took a change of
venue to Payne county, went to
trial as soon as court convened,
pleading self-defense. The trial
resulted in a hung jury. I gave
bond and went home. I was soon
forced tojtrial at an unlawful sit-
ting of the court, over my motion
for continueace to a regular term;
was supposedly convicted, denied
a new trial, and then I appealed;
gave required bond; appeal was
perfected, docketed and set for
trial, and then, without notice to
me was fraudulently dismissed by
the trial judge who tried the case
in the lower courts. Execution
was ordered and I was executed
and pronounced civilly dead, be-
ing imprisoned in the Kansas
state penitentiary.
1 at once began habeas corpus
proceedings and the supreme
court ol Kansas found that I had
never been tried and must be re-
leased. Instead of releasing me,
the said court ordered the Kansas
warden to kidnap me back into
Oklahoma. (See Pac. Reporter
or Kansas Report for 1S93.) I was
kidnapped anil thrown into jail in
Payne county, O(lahoma without
trial or process even though I had
an appearance bond and an ap-
peal bond, either of which was
good,
While m v habeas corpus case
was pending 111 the Karsas courts
| the clerk of Payne county, Okla
homa, forged a second life-time
commitment against me. The
first purported to emenate from
judgment of the April 1892, and
the second from the November1220 'So- pfor'a
Ti , , years ago during a
189.', terms of court. Tins forged , hl cM ufter
quired to bring my papers into
court. Subpcenas were not issued
and at the hearing of my petition
Warden Jewett used a fo ged pa
per purporting to be a journal en-
try to back up their forged com-
mitment, and thus defeating me
by deceiving the court.
This forged, so-called, journal
entry was secretly filed, and with-
out my knowledge, but after the
Supreme Court Clerk D. A- \ al-
entine, of Topeka. Kas , put me
in possession of the forged paper.
I now have the forged paper, and
by help of a lawyer I have made
ten copies of it. I, in March, 1904,
through you and by the aid of
Judge Hainer, of Perry, O. T.,
again secured a certificate under
seal from the clerk of Noble
county, which proves that there
is no record there against me, that
I was never tried there at all.
But since getting this certificate,
Jewett hai by fraud and force pre-
vented me from getting facts be-
fore the court.
Warden E. B. Jewett having
used forged papers in evidence,
having repeatedly robbed my
mail, knowing that his so-called
commitment was a forgery, and
having conspired to hold me in
prison and peonage, and having
the connivance of a high federal
judge, who, through his near rela-
tives, are running the largest fac-
tory within the prison walls, and
Jewett being, therefore, held im-
mune from arrest for conspiracy
to enslave Oklahoma men and
women, said Jewett knowing that
I will, if ever free from duress,
pro-ecu'e the conspirators, for-
t{> r5 and robbers, is now murder-
ing me by unlawful torture. Corat
1 b. g you to save my life bv pub-
lishing this statement at out e.
Your father, 1. N. Ierkill.
best fijhtiag. They are not over-
woiking their bodies in the di-
gestion of food."
Dr. Wiley says that eating too
fast is another evil of American
life and—what sounds more
strange—that the reason for this
is not so much that we fail to
properly masticate our food un-
der such conditions as because
when we eat fast we eat more
than we should. |When we eat
fast the balance the appetite
should strike is lost and we eat
more than we want.
"When spring comes on, re-
member that your body does not
require as much food as it did
during the winter and moderate
your appetite accordingly. Spring
fever is a langour which comes
from overloading the stomach
during the time when the body
doesn't have to fight the rigors of
winter, when there is too much
waste material in it. And don't
drink distilled water. Drink
water as it comes out of the earth
with all its mineral foods, mag-
nesia, etc. Do not eat a great
deal while you are working; eat
after the work has been done.
You are slways drawing your
strength from the food you have |
taken the day before."
"Do you believe in the modern
breakfast foods which are being
eaten so extensively?" the chem-
ist was asked.
"What's the use of paying for a
fancy name?" he said.
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M. K. 8c T.
From /March 1st to April 15 the KATY
will sell one way Colonists Tickets to the
Northwest as follows:
Billings, Mont., and intermediate
points
hinsdale, Mont.
Livisngston, Logan and Gardiner
helena. Butte and intermediate
Spokane, Ellenberg and inter'diate
Portland and Tacoma
$24 45
31 45
25 00
25 00
27 50
30 00
CALIFORNIA
Also during same dates will sell to near-
ly all California points at $25 00
LEWIS & CLARK'S EXPOSITION
Portland. June 1st to October 15th Special
Days Only $49 10.
Information in regard to these and many others cheerfully
given.
F. J. BEST, Agent.
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V Chicego Alderman Owes His Glee
ti 11 10 Cnambcrlains Cough
Kenedy.
"1 can heartily and conscientiously
recommend Chamberlain's Cough ,
Remedy for affections of the throat ! ^ at Cray s drug store, 120, E. Okla
and lungs," says
(lives Health, Vigor and Tone.
Herbine is a boon for sufferers from
aneama. By its use the blood is quick-
ly regenerated and the color becomes
normal. The drooping strength is re-
vived. The languar is diminished.
Health, tfigor and tone predominate.
New life and happy activity results.
Mrs. Belle H. S irel, Middlesborough,
111, writes: "I have been troubled
with liver complaint and poor blood,
and have found nothing to benefit me
like Herbine. 1 hope to never to be
without it. I have wished that 1 had
known of it in my husband's lifetime.
second commitment was secretly
Hon. John Shenic' ,
St., Chicago. "Two
political campaign,
being overheated,
homa avenue.
which irritated my throat and I was
uul fraudulently filed in the K in-1 fin.liy compelled to stop, as 1 could not
| speak aloud. In my extremity a frie: d
advised me to useChamb r ain's C .ugh
sas state penitentiary.
After I was kidnapped into Ok
lahoma, the territory pretended
to again to indict me for the same
and sole alleged offense, and com-
pelled me to appear before a
root court at I'erry, Noble comi-
ty, O. T., whicn county is not and
never w.is a part of the judicial
district where the alleged crime-
was committed. I now stand com-
mitted upon forged papers pur-
porting to issue from the district
court of Noble county, O. 1.
There is no record in said Noble
county of my ever having been
indicted, arraigned, tried, con-
victed or sentenced by and in
said court. In 1S99,1 got a cirtili-
cate under seal from the clerk of
court 111 said Noble county, show-
ing that there is no record and
that tin process whereon I .1111
held is a forgery.
Armed with proof, I asked the
Kansas state penitentiary officials
for permission to petition for a
writ of habeas corpus and for an-
swer I was placed in a dark cell
and kept in close confinement for
VVhitelaw Reid
Tribune.
Leaves
1 Remedy I took two doses that after-
noon and could not believe my sen es
when 1 found the next morning the in-
] tlammatioM had largely subsided. 1
took several diis- s that day, kept right
on talking through the campaign; at d 1
| thank this medicine thai I won my seat
in the Council." This remeey is for
sale by the Eagle Drug Store, F.
Lillie Co., and 0>vl Drug Store.
H.
Says We Eat Too Much.
"Americans eat too much meat"
"Americans eat too fast and too
much."
"Spring fever comes from over-
eating."
"Don't drink distilled water."
"Don't eat a great deal while
you are working."
"Woman's diet should be the
same as man's."
"Old-fashioned mush is better
th 111 patent breakfast foods.
"A simple diet means good
health and longevity."
Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief chemist
of thd United States Department
of Agriculture at Washington,
Whitelaw Reid's retirement
from the editorship and direction
of ihe New York Tribune in con-
sequence of his having taken the
1 pus.1:011 of ambassador to Eng-
land, makes necessary a reorgan-
, t/. ition of the editorial depart-
! meiit Hart Lyman; a long mem
ber of the editorial staff, succeeds
Mr. Reid as editor. Donald
N.cholson, who has been connect-
ed with the Tribune for 35 years
retires at his own request from
the managing editorship and is
succeeded by James Martin, who
has been news editor since 1900
Protected by
Block Signals
The first railway i
solute Block Systi
trains was the
America to adopt the ab-
in the operation of all
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Bail war
It today has more miles of road operated un-
der block signal rule than any other railway
company. The St. Paul Road was the first
railway to light its trains by electricty, and
it now has more than 400 electric-iighted pas-
senger cars in daily service. This is a consid-
erably greater number than operated by any
other railway. The St. Paul Road was also
the first to adopt the steam-heating system,
and its passenger trains are today the best
heated trains in America.
The Southwest Limited leaves Kansas City
Union Station, 5:55 p.m., Grand Ave. 6.07 p.m.
Arrives Union Station, Chicago, 8:55 a.m. This
is the train that has taken first place between
Chicago and Kansas City in its first year,
AND HOLDS IT.
G. L. COBB,
Southwestern Passenger Agent,
907 Main Street, KANSAS CI TY, MO.
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me or not." Washington Star.
IHVerliiK IV" flmlleiiKP".
'To you claim that the world owes
Like Finding Money. you a living?'
"No." answered Meandering Mike
Finding health is like finding money, .,j(|) |imn ,^at goes around elairain'
so think those who are sick. When | MmueS hlsself unpopular I'm satisfied
you have a cough, cold, sore throat or j to git my llvin' whether It's owin' to
c iest irritation, better act promptly
line W C. Barber, of Sandy Level, Va.
H • says: " I had a terrible chest trou-
ble, caused by smoke or coal dust on
my lungs; but., after finding no relief
in other medicines, 1 was cured by Dr.
King's New Discovery for eonsump-
t 011, coughs anil colds." Greatest sale
of any cough or lung medicine in the
w trltlj At all druggists. 50c and SI;
guaranteed. _ Trial bottle free.
Ill* Shortlinml.
Kmployer (to new clerk)—You don't
seem to keep pace with my dictation.
Why don't you write shorthand? I be-
lieve ynu told me that you knew short-
hand. Clerk So I do, but It takes me
longer than ordinary writing.
FRENCH FEMALE
PILLS
Sold in Guthrie byC
K. Ken fro*
I.nckliiK the Motive Power.
"I wimtler w hy the car doesn't slnrt!"
exclaimed 1111 impatient passenger.
"There are not enough people on
board yet to make the cargo," replied
another who understood the situation.
On 11 I'late.
lie—I'd like to take your photograph,
Edle. lteally, you're sweet enough to
eat! She—I see, and that's why yon
want to put me on a plate.—Illustrated
Dlts.
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Golobie, John. Oklahoma State Register. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 16, 1905, newspaper, March 16, 1905; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc280129/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.