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MANGUM, GREER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, February 27 l»lj
VOL. 23. NO. »7
ORDERS FOR
MOVEMENT
OF TROOPS!
TO >?T
POLL 'X:
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Washington, D. C.. Feb. 24.-
Military order* flew thick end feet
today in redemption of President
Taft'* promise to have en array of
10,000 men assembled et Galveston,
the most convenient port to Mexi-
co, all equipped for foreign service
and ready to execute any order that
hia successor might choose to issue
upon the basis of the conditions
that may exist after Mareh 4.
t These orders on the whole were
lupplementary to those which be-
ran to flow from the war depart-
hent toward the end of last week
nd were calculated to insure the
issemblage of the second division
>f the re-organized army at or in
he neighborhood of Galveston,
'he completion of the orders to
move the entire second division is
intended as further warning to
Mexico that there will be no de-
larting from the established policy
)f preparedness during the remain-
ing week of President Taft's ad-
ministration.
AH plans for the possible sending
rf troops into the republic tu the
»uth will continue with the same
minuteness of detail that would
lr£ 2llt(l characterize official orders had the
^ present acute condition arisen in
meats Mexico at any time earlier in the
itrife which has rent that republic
jjnce the first uprising against Por-
1 L"f im May U
BIN to Disfranchise Negroa*.
Paiiad hy House
oker
in
ing
Our
s up
Sat-
we
icess,
away
le to
buy,
^Iake
Okla
irio Diaz more than two years ago.
is course is justified on the
>und that any cessation in the
•losing days or even hours of the
Taft administration might be seized
lold of by Mexican malcontents, as
jp opportunity for a stroke which
Americans could not adequately
Overcome should officers relax their
figil-
So far the state department has
iven little thought to the question
the political recognition of the
:w government in Mexico, inclin-
ig to await further developments
[n the situation and willing to re-
;ard it largely by the recommenda-
tions of Ambassador Wilson whose
'Course so far, under extremely dif-
ficult and delicate circumstances,
has met with the unqualified ap-
roval of the department.
General Wm. H. Carter, who
:ommands the second division, was
rdered today from Chicago to Gal-
eston. This will be the second
[time that this officer has had the
lonor of commanding a complete
ivision of troops within the limits
if the state of Texas, the first be-
[ing in the case of the mobilization
f 1911, when the Mexican trouble
irst be came acute.
The fifth brigade'of this division
lis already moving under previous
lorders to Galveston, as is the fourth
field artillery, composed of moun-
tain batteries. The order issued
today will set in motion the fourth
brigade, the sixth brigade and the
sixth cavalry. Brigadier General
Frederick A. Smith commands the
fifth brigade, previously ordered to
concentrate; Col. Edwin F. Glenn
of the Twenty-third infantry, will
command the fourth brigade, in
the illness of Brigadier General
Ramsay D. Potts, and Col. Arthur
Williams of the Eleventh infantry
will command the Sixth brigade.
Oklahoma City. Feb. 24.—Should
the "poll tax" law which waa put
through the house of represented
Saturday, pan the senate £and be
signed by the governor, a bill will
be initiated by republicans and so-
cialists to repeal the law, declered
leaders today.
The poll tax law. while apparent-
ly for the purpose of raising funds
for common school purposes, was
declared on the floor of the house
Saturday by democratic leaders ^ to
be *olely for the purpose ot supple-
menting the present "grandfather
law" by widening its scope so as
to eliminate the socialist vote de-
flected from the democratic party.
Under the present bill, each voter
must apply during the months of
January and February, to the pre-
cinct election inspector, for a poll
tax certificate, and pay $1.50 for
the certificate, which must be pre-
sented at the polls before the citi-
zen will be allowed to vote.
■ANtUI, ROUT* 1.
R. Chote of Roanoke, Texas, vis-
ited Roy Morris last week.
W. L. Cook was in Mangum oa
boainess Tuesday.
Mrs. L. H. Poesy vieited at the
home of O. S. Splawn, Tuesday.
The little baby of Mr. aotf Mrs.
J. E. Keeting le very sick with
pneumonia.
Mrs. M A. Olive is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. H. Davenport, in
Oklahoma City this week.
Coyt. the little son of Mr. and
Mrs. S. A. Jackson, was real sick
last week, but is abie to be up
again.
N. B. Duncan is putting up a
store building on his place. He
has not decided what he will name
the new city.
J. S. Lige wad a Mangum visitor
Tuesday.
Clarence Keesling of Caddo, is
visiting friends and relatives
the route this week.
SPECIAL
CONGRESS
APRIL 1ST
TaHV and Currency Reform First
irts on Program—I
by Wilson.
MANGUM. ROUTE 2.
J. W. Smith was in Mangum on
con-
sent
and
that
Couuty Court
T.A.Kellidn convicted for keep-
ing a disordia|y huose, $500 fine, f
D.A.Ballew convicted for trans
porting Booze,30 days and $50 fine.
Cary Messmore was acquitted of
charge of sellig Booze.
Wm Roart charged with pointing
gun at Elias Shodad acquitted.
Charley Sands is being tried for
selling Booze case not decided as we
go to press.
District Court
M.L.Harris charged with theft
of two Bales of cotton at Willow,
put under $500 bond.
B. Holligsworth (col) plead guilty
to stealing diamonds from another
negro,gets two years.
W.H.Eng;ish plead guilty to
^rand larceny in District Court,
gets 3 years.
Jess. Reeves plead guilty to grand
larceny in District Court, gers 2
years.
J
:t and iff Washington, Feb.
j\ininistration is taking
hopeful view of the
omel
25.—rhe ad-
a much
outlook
Mexico. This was reflected in the
orough* 1 ca',iDet meeting today when all of
uw tin I t^le recent dispatches from Ambas-
. sador Wilson and American con-
ned one*.
>ns Live#"0!
wn liver I In,
suls in various parts of Mexico
were read and discussed.
The conclusion was reached that
nothing remains to be done at this
time to safeguard American inter-
ests in Mexico in view of the ex-
cellent disposition professed to-
wards Americans by the Huerta
goverment.
Mexico City, Feb. 25.—Emillo
Madero, a brother of the late Ex-
President Madero, has been shot
and killed north of Monterey, ac-
cording to reliable information re-
ceived here.
business Monday.
Dr. D. |W. Simpson has been
somewhat indisposed the pest week.
A number of witnesses attended
the contest case of J. C. Longmire
and R. I. Kennedy at Mangum, Sat-
urday.J
B. F. Harris left Monday for
Oklahoma City where he expects to
locete.
The box supper given by the
school at Gyp Hill, route 1, Satur-
day night was well attended in
spite of the bad weather. The
neat sum of $22 was realized from
the sale of boxes.
Willie Kennedy returned Friday
from Guthrie where he had been
on business.
Henry Brown received news last
week of the death of his father at
Osceola, Mo., and left Monday for
that place. ,
A. T.t Martin is building a tengnt
house on his farm to be occupied
by his son-in-law, Horace Briley.
Miss Mary Smith returned last
week from an extended visit with
relatives at Reed.
B. R. Cameron, Jr., was in Man-
gum on business Monday.
T. J. Butler and family left
Tuesday for Davidson where they
will reside in the future.
Washington, D. C.. Feb. 24.—
The extra session of congress which
President-elect Wilson todey an-
nounced would be called to meet
April 1, will find a number of tariff
bills ready for its immediate con-
sideration and other general poli-
cies map)>ed out for the new ad-
ministration. The date received
general approval in congress.
The letter from Democratic Lead-
er Underwood, upon which Mr.
Wilson based his decision to
ivpne the session April 1, was
after menders of the wavs
means committee had agreed
it would be possible to perfect sev-
eral of the tariff bills by that time.
An income tax bill is being pre-
pared by Representative Hull of
Tennessee, and will probably be
| one of the early measures intro-
duced in the house.
Whether the currency will be
taken up reaaains a question upon
which members of both houses are
in doubt, but it is believed that
the President-elect Wilson and the
democratic managers of the new
Congress wfll let it be known at
the outset tfast they want the cur-
rency problem taken up as soon as
it is possible to agree upon a sys-
tem of currency reform. If the
committees jkhat take up the sub-
ject can perfect the new legislation
before the extra session finishes
with the tariff, it is expected it
will be taken up at once.
A SECOND
ACQUITTAL
FOR SNEED
Taxaa Who Shot Man Who Elop-
ed With His Wile Freed
of Charge
STATE
PRINTER
IMPEACHED
Conviction Secured On Throe
Of Poor Charges—Vacation
of Office Ordered
Democrat is Close
Mexico City, Feb. 25.—Hope for
immediate peace in Mexico is
slight. Rebel activity in the north
has increased and the goverment's
efforts to enter into arrangements
with Zapatistas rppears to have
failed.
Whether the rebels, whose cen-
ter is the state of Coahuila, have
increased numerically is not gen-
erally known but they have so con-
ducted their operations already
that communication with the fron-
tier has been stopped that region
between Laredo and San Luis
Potosi being practically isolaued.
In the south Zapatistas continue
raiding and an attack on a military
train between Ozumba and Mexico
City leaves little doubt as to their
attitude toward the administration.
The attack was of the ordinary am-
hush type. The train was stopped
by a burned out bridge and the
fighting continued for more than
two hours.
MANGUM. ROUTE 3.
Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Overall of
White Flat, were in town trading
Tuesday.
Mrs. L. S. Hughes is on the sick
list this week.
The little daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. R. E. Powers died Sunday
night of pneumonia.
Mrs. W. B. Ball has been making
some improvements on her place
lately.
Rev. F. M. West has his new res-
idence completed, which is a great
improvement over the old one.
T. J. Williams of Mangum, was
on his place setting out trees Tues-
day.
J. H. Miller has rented land from
E. R. Pierson and will make a crop
there this year.
Misses Ethel and Virgie Busby
were Mangum visitors Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Graham were
in town trading Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Castle were
Mangum visitors Monday.
Everybody is busy now getting
ground ready for another crop.
T. W. Hickerson made a flying
trip to town Tuesday.
Bill Archie was in town Tcesday
with a fine load of corn.
Mrs. E. R. Pierson sod daughter-
Concord, N. H.. Feb. 25.—
Henry Hollis, democrat, lacked
only three votes of election as Uni-
ted States senator at the ballot of
the legislature Tuesday. He receiv-
ed 202 votes to 173 for Edward N.
Pearson, ' republican, and 22 lor
William J. Britton, progressive.
Vernon, Texas, Feh. 26.—John
Beel. Sneed wes today declared not
guilty of the murder of Al Boyoe,
Jr., at Amerillo, Texas, last Sep-
tember. The jnry retired last night
and returned the verdict today.
Sneed shot Boyce to death on a
street in Amarillo upon what wax
said to have been their first meet-
ing after Boyce eloped with Mrs.
Sneed.
Al Boyce, Jr., was the second
member of the Boyce family Sneed
h*d killed on account of the elope-
ment. The first killing was that of
Capt. Al Boyce. Sr., whom Sneed
shot in a Fort Worth hotel. Sneed's
defense was that he feared for his
life and that Captain Boyce was
aiding his son Al. in the elopment.
On October 13, 1911, Mrs. Sneed
proposed to her husband that she
leave Texas with Boyce and go to
South America. A few days later
Sneed placed his wife in a sani-.l
tariurn near Fort Worth.
Early in November Boyce and
Mrs. JSneed eloped. Sneed spent
$20,000 in searching the country
for them. They were found in Win-
nipeg, Canada, where Boyce was
held on charges of theft, made
at Fort Worth. Sneed went to
Winnipeg, persuaded hia wife to
return to Texas and the charges
against Boyce were dropped.*
Several moths later Boyce return-
ed to l'exas and Sneed at his trial,
declared that for some time before
he killed Boyce in Amarillo, he had
lived in expectation of death at
any time at the young man's hands.
WILSON'S
CABINET
CHOSEN?
Mrs. Grover Green, were in town
trading Monday.
MANGUM, ROUTE 4.
The farmers are in good [spirits
over the rain last week, as they
now have a season to start a crop
on.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Foster are
;he proud parents of twin girls,
born Sunday. Mother and babies
doing well and J. B. thinks he will
be able to eat something stronger
than soup in a day or two.
Miss Lelia Cotton, who is attend-
ing the Baptist college, spent Sat-
urday and Sunday with home folks.
Bro. Kersey of Aldrich, will
preach at Templeton, Saturday
night and Sunday.
Jim Mart;n and wife visited rel-
atives at Blake last week.
Willie Grimes is on the sick list
this week.
The attendance at the Templeton
school has been very irregular up
o the present, but new scholars
are coming in every day and the
teacher hopes for much better at-
tendance from now on
Jim Morrison of Decatur, Ala.,
is visiting at the home of J. D.
Martin.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Grimes
spent Sunday at the home of the
carrier.
Mrs. D. R. Dial of the city, is
visiting old time friends in the
Ofcnter neighborhood.
Mrs. Hester Carpenter spent Sun-
day at the home of J. E. Carpenter
Washington Officials Say All but
Two Places Have
Been Filled
Washington, D. C., Feb. 25.—It
was stated positively tonight in
high congressional quarters closely
identified with the incoming ad-
ministration of President Wilson
the following cabinet appointments
had been definitely determined up-
on :
Secretary of State—William J.
Bryan, Nebraska.
Secretary of the Treasury—William
G. McAdoo, New York.
Secretary of the Navy -Josephus
Daniels, Democratic national com-
mitteeman of North Carolina.
Postmaster General—Albert Sid-
ney Burleson, Texas.
Other places in the cabinet are
said to be reasonably settled with
the exception of the portfolios of
war and agriculture.
In connection with the latter posi-
tion the name of Henry J. Waters,
president of the Kansas State Agri-
culture colleee is presistently men-
tioned.
Gilee W. Farris, Oklahoma's first
elective state printer, wm found
guilty hy the senate court of im-
peachment Wednesday afternoon on
three of the four Impeechment arti-
cles prepared by the house of re-
presentative* charging him with
offences involving moral turpitude,
wilful nrglect of duty and corrup-
tion in office and with but one dis-
senting vote from the forty-two of
its fo.ty-four members participat-
ing, the senate voted for his im-
mediate removal from office.
Senator James L. Austin csst the
single vote recorded against the im-
peachment of Farris. Senator
Austin voted against conviction on
all of the charges.
This was the first case in the his-
tory of Oklahoma, and one of only
a very few in the country, where
the constitutional provision con-
ferring impeachment authority on
the highest branch of the state leg-
islature has been invoked, and
Farris will go down in the history
of Oklahoma as the first high state
official to be impeached. The sen-
ate's aetion does not go any further
than removal from office and does
not carry any punishment for con-
viction on the charges made by the
house.
Farris does not accept the verdict
of the senate and has announced his
determination to remain in office
until the validity of the senate's
action is tested in the courts, while
on the other hand, Governor Cruce
has declared that he will immedi-
ately place some one else in charge
of the state printing department or
close the office and turn it over to
the state examiner and inspector.
Farris basses his contention on the
claim that in the meaning of the
costitutioji he isjfpot a highMstate
official, and, therefore, not subjeet
to impeachment. The same argu-
ment was presented to the senate
at the outset of the trial by At-
torney Giddings, representing Far-
ris, who demurred to the house
charges on the ground that the sen-
ate was without jurisdiction, but
the demurrer was overruled by the
senate. Farris declares he will not
take the intiative in testing the
question but will remain in office
until onster prlcpedings are start-
ed against him.
S. S. Convention
March 9th will be observed as
Convention Day in Greer county.
Programs will be sent out later for
the occasion. That would be a
good time to select your delegates
to the state convention. Don't for-
get your county pledge; that would
be a good time to take an offering
for that purpose.
J. P. Glocer of Blake, was in
the city yesterday on business
Telegraph
Madero slain: Taft keeps send-
ing more troops to Galveston.
Wilson onnounces special con-
gress session for April 1.
Thaw to take stand to explain al-
leged attempted bribety to free
him.
Kansas house passes recall bill
senate approved.
Okl|homa Republicans will fight
poll tax bill.
Mrs Pankhurst arrested.
Madero's brother slain; revolts
active in Mexico; Taft still hope-
ful for peace
Wilson's cabinet all chosen "but
two portfolios.
Dr. Friedman arrives in New
York to show his cure for tubercu-
losis.
Wilson resigns as governor of
New Jersey, to take effect March 1
Kansas senate passes bill to abo-
lish election commissioners.
Oklahoma house may seek te im-
peach Stolpher, ex-public defender.
Thaw's competency as a witness
in inquiry is questioned.
Sneed found not guilty of mur-
der of Al Boyce; ends famous case.
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